Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Choosing the right diabetes doctor can make a major difference in how effectively your condition is managed, your quality of life, and your long-term health outcomes.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Direct Access to Your Doctor : Many DPC providers limit their patient load, meaning you get more face-to-face time with your doctor, often with little to no wait time. Traditional primary care practices tend to have more patients, which can lead to longer wait times and potentially longer waits for appointments.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Telemedicine Healthcare 52

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

IT 139

IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Internist : Specializes in adult medicine. They are trained exclusively to treat adults and often handle more complex conditions.

Internal Medicine 130

Internal Medicine GP Family Doctor Primary Care 130

Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

Why Preventive Health Maintenance Matters The importance of public health and individual wellness cannot be overstated. A diagnostic colonoscopy is done when a patient has symptoms like rectal bleeding or abnormal test results. The goal is to avoid disease, not just treat it.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Wellness Visit Physicals 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? This is Eric Widera.

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Big randomized control study that came out. Important implications.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123