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Media Portrayals of Substance Use Disorder and its Impact on Primary Care Treatment: A Scoping Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Media portrayals of addiction shape public perceptions, directly affecting individuals' willingness to seek treatment. Objective: This study aims to examine how mass media reinforces negative stereotypes of individuals with SUDs. Results: Inductive thematic coding was performed on 16 included articles.

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Super-utilization interventions - failing or evolving in complex systems? A scoping literature review [Complexity science]

Annals of Family Medicine

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals. Articles were intentionally chosen to illustrate primary themes.

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The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?

A Country Doctor Writes

It is time we do something different, and I believe the solution is under our noses every day, at least if we read the medical journals: I can be aware of what’s going on in the medical literature without reading every article. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication. It should follow logic.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal interviewed physicians, attempting to make sense of the declining numbers. For medical professionals and those working in healthcare, the article was grim. As the Wall Street Journal article pointed out, patients don’t want to feel like just a number on a chart.

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

Both readings for this session, a New Yorker article and a Health Affairs paper , portrayed Romney as a “data wonk” who viewed the issue of the uninsured as a problem-solving challenge rather than a grand moral imperative. Yet much like LBJ's inspirational leadership, Romney's data-crunching approach produced tangible results. Phillips, Jr.

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How Sprouts Enhance Your Health for Better life for You

Rao Doctor

How Sprouts Help to Improve Your Health Boosting Your Nutrient Intake and The Key to Better Nutrition In my last article, I talked about how to grow sprouts , their different types and some educational videos on this topic and in this we learn how sprouts enhance your health for a even better life.

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The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Reversing Early Chronic Disease

Edge Family Medicine

Unlike traditional medicine that often focuses on medications, lifestyle medicine emphasizes preventive and curative strategies tailored to the individual. Lifestyle medicine is a patient-centered, evidence-based approach that treats the root causes of chronic diseases. It leverages therapeutic lifestyle changes to improve health outcomes.