Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Here are some ways family physicians can collaborate with health care systems and community organizations to tackle food insecurity within Minnesota: Expand Food Insecurity Screenings: Train staff to use tools like Hunger Vital Signs and integrate food insecurity screenings into routine care.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. A trial of four to eight weeks would be reasonable. You should trust that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

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. Here are the key results.

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