A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Absolutely. Emmy: Yeah.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients).

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