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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. Study Design A behavioral health curriculum was designed for second year residents.

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November is Diabetes Awareness Month

Family Physicians of Greeley

This means that insulin is necessary to sustain life since glucose is the body’s primary form of energy. This diagnosis increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. In addition, there are approximately 117,000 people who have undiagnosed diabetes and an astounding 1,444,000 people who have prediabetes.

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

GeriPal

And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. He’s the director of the program for Care and S tudy of the A ging H eart and director of the H eart F ailure with P reserved E jection Fraction program. He’s in Boston. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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A Case of HPV / Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx as Seen from a CBCT

CDOCS

The age of diagnosis of HPV squamous cell carcinoma starts in males and females at about 30 years old and peaks between 60-69 and then starts decreasing after that. He had been having issues with it for about 2 years and had been seen by an ENT physician. The PCP tested for strep throat twice but both times results were negative.

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