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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Release Stress Anxiety can be pathologic, resulting from a physical or mental disorder beyond an individual’s control.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. As you heal, check in with your direct primary care physician. Contact your DPC physician immediately.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

He thinks legalization is a mistake , characterizing THC as addictive, mentally and physically disorienting, and a gateway to the misuse of other drugs. Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! Recreationally, you can have bad symptoms or overdose with THC. What Does THC Do?

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions. I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. After medical school, a person earns the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).