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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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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Unfortunately, traditional care doctors often resort to the two easiest options for patients with joint or back pain: They send the patient for imaging or refer them to a specialist. When people think these are the only two possible options, injured patients often skip the doctor’s office and head directly to a subspecialist.

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

GeriPal

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. I think she’s the creator of the mini cog.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms.