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Visiting a Health Clinic for Women’s Health Screenings

Mesa Family Physician

A women’s health check typically includes a review of your medical history, a physical examination, and specific screenings based on your age and risk factors. If you’re new to a provider, you might hear terms like establish care visit or new patient visit vs annual physical. What Is a Women’s Health Check?

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Typically, it includes a full review of your medical history, a physical examination, and a conversation about lifestyle, medications, and future health goals. Doctor appointment length PCP appointment duration If you have multiple issues to discuss, be sure to mention that when scheduling so the clinic can allot enough time.

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Zen and the Art of Doctoring

A Country Doctor Writes

I had this idea to write a post about quality, linking to the characterization of quality in the classic book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. In modern clinical environments, the fragmentation of care into ever-smaller specialties can lead to loss of coherence.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This is not to say that this book is not worth reading - far from it.

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Episode 67: Human Dx unknown with Reza & Pitt residents – altered mental status

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Her clinical interests include physical exam teaching, clinical anatomy for internists, and point of care ultrasound. Since moving to California, she spends her free time running outside all year round and reading books on the beach.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. Heard-Garris draws parallels between the culture within the carceral system and that within hospitals and clinics.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I opened my diary (an actual physical book, not Outlook) and the silver ribbon is firmly stuck in the week of Wednesday 22nd May. Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. I am catching up on various emails and tasks that I have been ignoring for the past few weeks.

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