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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? And several of the BPH medications are very strongly associated with falls and orthostatic hypertension.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients). 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients). million Canadian patients).