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

Common Sense Family Doctor

These experiences motivated him to complete a two-year fellowship in behavioral health and psychiatry, where he learned the biopsychosocial model and decided to make primary care mental health the teaching focus of his academic career. This is not to say that this book is not worth reading - far from it.

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Can a Psychiatrist Prescribe Medication?

Doctor On Demand

Psychiatrist Yes Sometimes Psychologist No Yes Therapist (LCSW, LMFT, LPC) No Yes Primary Care Doctor Yes (limited) No When Should You See a Psychiatrist? Start a Psychiatry Visit Online If you’re ready to speak with a psychiatrist, Doctor On Demand makes it easy to get care from the comfort of home. Offers Therapy?

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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively. They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly.

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

GeriPal

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He has a book, which I have read, Facing Death, and we will discuss Facing Death: Spirituality, Science, and Surrender at the End of Life. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. Brad, welcome to GeriPal.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And I wonder, like, how, when you think about these different buckets of diagnoses, especially for somebody like me who does not do psychiatry.

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