A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results. Early screening reveals these “silent” health threats that may otherwise go undetected for years until more serious heart issues such as chest pain, heart failure, or events such as heart attacks or strokes arise.

Screening 52

Screening Family Medicine DO Families 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ).

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs. Waiting for symptoms to appear is a recipe for disaster.

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PCP PCP Diabetes Primary Care Physician 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Others cited the call from communities to meet them where they are – be they senior centers, Black-owned businesses, or churches (we have a podcast planned in the fall with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss on the church setting). Hillary: So great to be here. Eric: And we have L.J Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. He’s chair of the department of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer center. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though. Come down here.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133