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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , I explore the complexities of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) and gastritis in children and adolescents. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Or, you can label it as dyspepsia, also known as indigestion. Non invasive H.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I hear it’s over diagnosed.