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What is primary care? Part 1

Noreta Family Medicine

What is primary care? Part 1 How do I choose a primary care physician? Here are some questions to consider along with a few tips for finding a primary care doctor: 1) How easy is it to get in touch with your doctor and their office? 3) What services does the primary care doctor offer?

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Tips to Help your New Year’s Resolutions Stick in 2025

Noreta Family Medicine

These are good reasons to make an appointment with your primary care doctor. Visit your primary care doctor! It’s no big surprise that I recommend this since I am a family physician, but there are additional tips, and even medicines that can be prescribed to help you stop smoking, quit drinking, lose weight, etc.

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A Goal Fulfilled

Noreta Family Medicine

Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. I have personally seen the benefits of Direct Primary Care for both patients and doctors, but there is very little published research about DPC. If I find some partners, perhaps I will be one of them!

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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. My patients have a say in their care.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is primary care? Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!)

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.