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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. million Canadian patients).

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

GeriPal

Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. So I think I remember the early years, once this became more of a chronic disease, I would go to these ID meetings and people would be wringing their hands saying, well, I don’t know how to treat diabetes.