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Mental Health in Michigan: A Direct Primary Care Approach

Plum Health

I've seen firsthand the challenges people face when it comes to accessing quality mental health care. The Mental Health Landscape in Michigan Michigan, like many states, has a significant burden of mental health issues. That's why I'm excited to talk about how direct primary care can offer a solution.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. were female, 74.4%

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. Current medical AIs only process one type of data, for example, text or X-ray images. However, medicine, by nature, is multimodal as are humans.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

During this comprehensive wellness examination, your healthcare provider evaluates your current health status, screens for potential concerns based on your age, gender, and risk factors, and helps you develop strategies to maintain or improve your health moving forward.

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

GeriPal

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

Illness 136
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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. I often need a prior off but I have been surprised that the insurance hasn’t been the barrier that I thought it would be.

Illness 102
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What are the signs of an eating disorder?

Vida Family Medicine

Eating disorders are considered mental health conditions but they affect every aspect of a person's health. Eating disorders are some of the most deadly of mental health conditions, second only to opiate addiction. Eating disorders affect people of all ages, races, and genders.