A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The case for integration is obvious; 85% of the time the ten most common symptoms brought to the attention of primary care doctors (chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, back pain and so on) have no known somatic explanation – the cause for the symptom appears to be psychological. about the Patient-Centered Medical Home.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

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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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. It created a lot of challenges.

Illness 73

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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? And I pretty much present it as. Does a good history matter anymore?

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

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). 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients).

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Family Physician Families Family GP 130