A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. 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.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. I have personally seen the benefits of Direct Primary Care for both patients and doctors, but there is very little published research about DPC. 1 – Doing research is time-consuming.

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Primary Care DO Family Medicine Family Physician 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They aren’t going to be better unless we have health systems that actually respond to detection of cognitive impairment with good care plans and follow through, as Joe was talking about.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? And then I had the opportunity to really interact and work with a lot of geriatricians, and I really was attracted to the care of older people. ” I did love that line.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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