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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure. For Women Women require specific preventive services throughout their lives, including breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings, osteoporosis testing, and prenatal care during pregnancy.

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

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community. Our Mesa physicians are experts at helping local residents balance health priorities with career demands.

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How to get the preventive care you need!

Vida Family Medicine

This visit will include a review of your personal health history and family history so that your doctor can advise you on any screening tests that might be helpful for you. This could include screening for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes, as well as screening for cancer.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Why would that be?

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Alex 02:00 Ann Arbor, where I went to undergrad.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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