A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. No counseling is offered.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. What is Urgent Care? No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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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 address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what? ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner.

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