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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.

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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. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. Non invasive H. pylori in the kid.

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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? And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor?

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk. Alex: Yeah. Emmy: Yeah.

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