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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications. Following treatment plans: Take medications exactly as prescribed.

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Managing High Blood Pressure with Medication and Lifestyle

Imperial Center Family Medicine

However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications. Following treatment plans: Take medications exactly as prescribed.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law

Unusual Amounts and Dosages Dispensing high doses of opioids in quantities far exceeding the daily morphine milligram equivalent (“MME”) dose recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). The Zarzamora decision identifies the following as prescribing red flags at issue in the case: 1. Complaint ¶ 57. (The

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Mental Health in Michigan: A Direct Primary Care Approach

Plum Health

It's a different way of doing healthcare, one that puts patients at the center. The Challenges of Accessing Mental Health Care I've heard countless stories from patients who have struggled to get the mental health care they need. One of my patients, Sarah, had been struggling with anxiety for years.

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Easing Arthritis Pain: Natural Remedies & Medical Treatments

Center for Family Medicine

With PT, a specialist helps the patient go through a series of stretches, exercises, and modalities to reduce pain and improve function. A doctor will diagnose arthritis and recommend a physical therapy regimen. After surgery, the patient will require physical therapy and rehabilitation lasting several months.

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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