The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

” Sounds a lot like Direct Primary Care, doesn’t it? Well that is great as long as you already have your diagnosis figured out! Meanwhile, if you were a member of a Direct Primary Care practice, like Direct Doctors, your visit would be free with your monthly membership fee (which averages $85 for adults).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives Describe perspectives of clinicians and implementation leads on the role of primary care in ADRD early detection. Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g., All participants are referred to receive free produce ("standard of care").

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Recruitment of study participants by general practitioners (GPs) is a general concern in primary care. Objective: To compare demographic, clinical and psychosocial characteristics of children with FAP and IBS who are recruited by their GP versus via media.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

[link] In this Clinical Reasoning Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Kuchal Agadi presents a case to Dr. John Woller and Dr. Areeb Masood of a 67 year-old male with altered mental status. After completing his residency, he aims to practice a blend of hospital medicine and HIV primary care.

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Diagnosis Internal Medicine Primary Care Medical Student 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Implementing shared decision-making is an international priority in chronic pain care, especially for primary care clinicians. We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature Medicine. percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs. PanDerm outperformed clinicians by 10.2

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. It’s going to transform the whole clinical approach for this common and chronic symptom. One example is the clinically validated VitaloJAK.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States. Clinical practice guidelines on the management of episodic migraine headache, including the 2023 US Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense guideline , preferentially recommend triptans for most patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of a PHQ9 outreach to patients via a mobile app to increase clinical engagement and improve depression care quality. Setting/Population: Primary care patients of a national membership-based primary care delivery system, operating in several metropolitan locations in the US.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 12, 2023

[link] In this Infectious Disease Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Jorge Salazar presents a case to Dr. Monica Gandhi of a transgender woman with a recent diagnosis of HIV presenting with fatigue and weight loss. She also serves as the medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH (“Ward 86”).

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

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Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: Determine referral patterns from primary care (PC) to integrated behavioral health (BH) for populations with and without multiple CCs; Identify post-referral treatment initiation patterns for integrated BH among patients with and without CCs. 8% (n= 1,146) were ordered for medical condition management.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Rapid portable assays are needed to improve diagnosis, treatment, and reduce transmission of tuberculosis (TB), but current tests are not suitable for patients in resource-limited settings with high TB burden.” Changes in assay results for serum isolated during treatment were also highly predictive of clinical response,” the authors noted.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

percent) had a confirmed asthma diagnosis after age 4 years. Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D., from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues sought to externally validate and update the PARS as a passive digital marker (PDM) for asthma risk.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Her clinical interests include primary care and medical education. When not in the hospital and clinics, she enjoys exploring the Houston foodie scene, watching movies, enjoying all things true crime, and spending time with her husband, Tyler, and Olde English Bulldogge, Bella. Human Dx Learn more here

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 19, 2020

He wishes to thank Dr. Juan Lessing for his amazing mentorship and inspiring his interest in clinical reasoning – and introducing him to Rabih and Reza! Dr. Austin Rezigh Austin Rezigh is a third-year internal medicine, primary care track resident at the University of Colorado.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! and supplements you are taking including the doses and what you take them for- even better, bring the bottles!

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Low-resource settings provide unique challenges to adoption: frequently there are a low number of care providers serving a higher number of patients, supervision is conducted less regularly due to travel times, and current clinical guidelines might not be readily available.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Intervention/Instrument: Disability status was identified from documented diagnostic codes from January 2018 to December 2019, and COVID-19 diagnosis was captured between April 2020 and December 2022.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Alright, let’s scope things out.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Devika Nair and Rasheeda Hall talk about their JAGS article highlighting updates from nephrology in the care of older adults, including a link to this new eGFR calculator that does NOT include race. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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 make a diagnosis. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. How do you choose the right clinic when every option seems equally promising?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

There I was, extremely overly trained with brain stuff, and I wanted to learn how to do clinical research. I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. One might argue they still are.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? I wonder why?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

“The simple and universally accessible waist-to-height measurement is useful in clinical and public health practice for liver disease screening, prevention, diagnosis and management globally.” ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? And so I took a palliative care elective in my last two weeks of fellowship with Nina O’Connor an amazing mentoring clinician.

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