A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

A sore knee or an annual physical are like a closeup or a panorama. It may look something like this: 40 year old male has a normal routine physical. Or it may look like these examples: 60 year old male with hypertension, COPD and anticoagulated atrial fibrillation returns for followup. Dietary strategies reviewed.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Chronic exposure has been associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin cancer, renal, bladder and lung cancers, polyneuropathy, and QT prolongation. This is the first study elucidating clinician knowledge on the risk and symptomatic presentation of patient arsenic exposure from well water.

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Patients Routine Screenings Provider Internal Medicine 130

Vascular Physician

MARCH 25, 2022

Treatment Options Conservative management includes lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation, weight loss, and regular physical exercise. Medications to use include controlling dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes along with antiplatelet therapy.

Hypertension 52

Hypertension Treatment Plan Diabetes Diagnosis 52

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Physical activity is a big one. But there are some things that we really think we can modify: the vascular risk factors, sleep, physical activity, maybe cognitive activity, and what kind of bang for the buck could we get?

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical.

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Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. It treats diabetes, it prevents progression of chronic kidney disease. This was actually just brought up to me by a med student the other day.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I think I’m preventing some potential extra non synthesis that is not happening because you are lacking that bottleneck little hydrosoluble vitamin that might be present. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. And so is there just a placebo effect?

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133