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Combating Food Insecurity in Minnesota

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. Community Partnerships: Mayo Clinic collaborates with local food banks to offer mobile food distributions.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

Common Sense Family Doctor

They quantified time, paperwork, communication, technology (number of mouse clicks to order a CRC screening test), other administrative tasks, and low-value CRC screenings. Finally, neither patients nor primary care clinicians could easily access the results of colonoscopies or stool-based tests.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

You should have the child follow up with their primary care doctor often after about 10 to 14 days on the acid blocking regimen that you prescribed. But if they’re not improving, And that could be a cause for referral to gastroenterology. Remember, our community pediatricians, family medicine doctors, are brilliant.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Over time, communication improves.