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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. Now you’re concerned about the next steps.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Regularly talking with people you care about may help you avoid the need for antidepressants. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! At Priority Physicians, your relationship with your primary care doctor encourages openness on this subject. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, IN and has a passion for putting his patients first in his practice.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

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I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.