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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Post-rotation, 64% of residents felt more comfortable diagnosing OUD. Notable, 92.9%

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The Importance of a Primary Care Relationship

Edge Family Medicine

Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. Personalized & Continuous Care When your provider understands your personal and family medical history, they can more accurately diagnose issues and recommend care strategies that reflect your unique needs.

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Breast Cancer Awareness

Family Physicians of Greeley

One of the scariest things to ever hear is that you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer. Would you be surprised to learn that 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime? Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer In the United States. What puts you at risk for breast cancer?

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. It can be stressful.

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

GeriPal

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?