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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. Find a caring primary care doctor: As a direct primary care physician, I devote time to sit down with patients and learn about their lifestyles, hopes, desires, worries, and concerns.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

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Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. An Individual Decision Besides considering THC’s illegal status in Indiana, the choice to use is an individual one. Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! THC overdose is possible.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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If they’re a beginning fellow, that’s a very different coaching situation than coaching the chief medical officer or the president of a medical center. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year. Beth: Yeah. How much drive do you have?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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We’ve also invited Mike Harper, the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) as well as past-president for the society (and my previous program director). The fact that we have I think something like 3000 health systems that are at least now somewhat certified and moving to a higher levels of certification.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.