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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Personalized Diabetes Treatment Plans: How Connecticut Specialists Approach Care

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. Those goals could include reaching a healthy blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol levels or managing complications associated with diabetes. Here’s what that looks like, step by step.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. It’s more complicated than that. Approach them with a non‑judgmental, ongoing dialogue about their reasons for use, which can reveal underlying mental or physical health concerns.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Those big claims “seem to get on the insurer’s radar,” said Casey Schwarz, senior counsel for education and federal policy at the Medicare Rights Center. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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What is a Doctor’s Role?

33 Charts

This is the discovery of problems during physical exam and endoscopy. This usually involves taking elements of a patient’s story, applying wisdom and experience and then offering a really educated guess about what’s happening. It’s complicated when we can’t identify what our job is. In my work I … Find. Translate.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Physical activity is a big one. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. If we focused on prevention, from a public health standpoint, we would achieve far more than spending millions billions on treatment.