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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

A sore knee or an annual physical are like a closeup or a panorama. I don’t really need the details in order to know how to consider this patient’s risk for future cardiac events. It may look something like this: 40 year old male has a normal routine physical. We may only have 15 minutes with each patient.

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Why I don’t do “weight loss” as a primary care physician

Vida Family Medicine

While losing weight is often suggested to lower the risk of chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, the risk of prescribing weight loss is overlooked. This can be disheartening, leading to a cycle of stricter diets, increased frustration, and worse physical and mental health.

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Transfibular Total Ankle Arthroplasty Seems Effective for End-Stage Arthritis

Physician's Weekly

for the 12-item Short Form Health Survey Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary, respectively; 2.3 percent) had adverse events, with medial gutter debridement (22 ankles; 16.9 Jonathan Day, M.D., years after primary TAA to examine implant survivorship and clinical and radiographic outcomes. At a mean of 26.7

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Causes of Brain Fog & How to Get Rid of It

AMMD

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease. However, the causes of brain fog can sometimes be symptoms of a medical condition such as autoimmune disease, digestive issues, or thyroid disease. (5)

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. And so those are all options that are available.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements.

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What Is the Importance of Preventative Medical Care?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

This means that if medical events or illnesses have surfaced in your immediate family since your last checkup, your doctor can calculate this information into your risk factors for other conditions. Let’s look at some reasons why preventative care is so important.

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