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What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals

Dr. Michael Bazel

Building a Positive Relationship With Food Many people associate food with guilt or stress, particularly when managing weight. Together, you and your counselor evaluate your current eating habits, pinpoint areas for improvement, and design a strategy that fits your lifestyle and health objectives. It includes the following: Medical history.

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The Evolution of Concierge Medicine: What 20 years in the industry have taught me

Concierge Choice Physicians

Our job was primarily to inform private physicians and patients that there was another way to secure that one-to-one relationship and to get away from the bureaucracy that seemed to have taken over medicine. These skeptics underestimated how much patients valued the relationship they had with their doctor. ​The model took off.

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The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Reversing Early Chronic Disease

Edge Family Medicine

Social Connection: Positive relationships and community support improve mental health and resilience. From dietary consultations and exercise plans to stress reduction strategies, we are here to support your journey toward health and longevity. What is Lifestyle Medicine? Why Act Now?

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

A primary care visit is your chance to build a relationship with a provider who will oversee your general health. Building a strong relationship with your primary care provider starts with a single visit. What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

Yet, the words we use to interview patients, to document the history and physical examination findings, and to present our thoughts to our patients and to our behavioral health consultants are often extremely unhelpful and sometimes downright insulting to the patient. This is not Orwellian Newspeak; our words can heal, and they can hurt.

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Assessing patient experience through the attitudes and emotions expressed during medical encounters [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Recently, the need to study potential associations between expressions of A/E towards cancer and its treatment during consultations and the emotional distress reported by patients after the consultation emerged. 4) Reported psychological distress level was measured post consultation with the patient distress thermometer.

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Telehealth for Maternity Care: Qualitative Perspectives of Clinicians and Mothers [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions. This concern is in part due to the risk of replacing in-person visits, which are beneficial for building rapport in the mother-infant-provider relationship. Participants also described challenges to expanding telehealth.