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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? GPs improve prevention, which avoids diseases.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. We don’t want to deal with this too complicated. Peter 27:32 Well, no, so if you.