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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from.

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10 Essential FAQs About Fever: Understanding the Heat-Part 1

Rao Doctor

In this article today, I am going to answer a few frequently asked questions about this illness and also learn how to get rid of it. During an illness, the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that functions as a thermostat, raises the body’s set-point temperature. Introduction: What is fever? What does fever do?

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Recognizing and Preventing SIBO: Your Comprehensive Guide

AMMD

This is why many people fail to get a diagnosis. Learn more about how inflammation and chronic illness go hand-in-hand in this podcast episode with Dr. Will Cole. How to Diagnose SIBO: Testing Options Conventional medicine fails us when it comes to solving complex gut issues. They think it’ll go away on its own.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing. Laboratory diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children: a review. There’s also been an increase in diagnosis in those under 12 months of age.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Patients with psychosis caused by medical illness usually have abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impaired orientation with compromised intellectual function. Acute onset psychosis is relatively rare.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.