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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves. Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from. Yearly check-ups are not only for people with a medical history.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. Differences in demographic variables, age at first cannabis use, alcohol use, or nicotine use did not explain these results.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Physical activity is a big one. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. If we focused on prevention, from a public health standpoint, we would achieve far more than spending millions billions on treatment.

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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. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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