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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen?

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Nate 01:11 Very healthy man.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Completion of advance directives and billing codes for advance care planning as quality metrics. Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast: Objectives for Advance Care Planning. Eric: We’ve got a lot talk to about out around advance care planning and serious illness communication. Among other topics. Here we go.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. .” Bob: I’ll give it a try.

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