Appointment, Management, Patients and Telehealth

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider.

Primary Care

Primary Care Appointment Telehealth PCP

Is your telehealth setup up to snuff? 7 quick checkpoints for practices

Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

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Booking a Canadian Endocrinologist for Online Follow-Ups

Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Why Follow-Ups Matter in Endocrinology: Booking a Canadian endocrinologist for online follow-ups is essential for managing endocrine disorders like thyroid disease, diabetes, and hormone imbalances. Skipping these appointments can delay progress or cause setbacks. Select an Appointment Time Pick a time that fits your schedule.

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Hormone virtual consultation for PCOS | Canadian women

Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

A virtual hormone consultation combines patients with certified endocrinologists or hormone experts through safe videos or phone appointments. Management of PCOS often requires a multi-disciplinary approach that includes hormone evaluation, lifestyle coaching, medicine, and follow-up. What is virtual hormone consultation?

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Consulting Appointment Insurance Management

When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

When to use telehealth for chest congestion Use telehealth, also known as virtual care , for chest congestion when symptoms are mild to moderate and you need medical advice, prescriptions, or a treatment plan. Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients

Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine

When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Why am I having difficulty with this patient? Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient?

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. And that’s it. Kate: Sure.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients

Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” That rings true to me. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening

Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Shnekendorf noted that physician distribution is a top concern for IDSA, which aims to address it partially through its compensation initiative and telehealth data.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

That was actually Ken, you remember that article, Nancy Schoenberg’s article on screening and what to say and what not to say to patients on how to talk. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. So therefore I feel that I am obligated to tell patients about this option. Ken 09:56 We did a role play.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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