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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

A primary care visit is your chance to build a relationship with a provider who will oversee your general health. Typically, it includes a full review of your medical history, a physical examination, and a conversation about lifestyle, medications, and future health goals. What Is a Primary Care Visit? Absolutely.

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FREE Physician Retreat Book

Pamela Wible MD

In fact, your medical career can cause both physical and mental illness (especially for empaths). An unfulfilling career impacts your mood, relationships, and longevity, increasing your risk for heart disease, autoimmune conditions, cancer—even suicide.

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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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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. Correctional officers act as gatekeepers, deciding who does and does not need medical care. Basic Books, 2022.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Somehow or other he talked this medical system into allowing him to develop the Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

So I started asking around in terms of even my colleagues and so forth, you read about these little, like you say, paragraphs in books that say something about what you should do with hearing loss and testing for hearing loss, and making sure hearing aids are in place. I don’t see myself in that world.” So they’re left out.

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