Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits.

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Doctor On Demand

JUNE 2, 2025

If you’re considering mental health treatment, you may be wondering: can a psychiatrist prescribe medication? A psychiatrist is a licensed medical doctor (MD or DO) who specializes in mental health. Can a Psychiatrist Prescribe Medication? The post Can a Psychiatrist Prescribe Medication? Offers Therapy?

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. Perhaps a plan from the Healthcare.gov marketplace?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Session facilitator: Hui Ting Ruan The goal of this session is to expand access to subspecialty, primary care, and internal medicine-adjacent specialty education to learners around the world. After completing his residency, he aims to practice a blend of hospital medicine and HIV primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with chronic medical conditions (CCs) and behavioral comorbidities have lower quality of life and increased healthcare expenses. 8% (n= 1,146) were ordered for medical condition management. Our work builds a foundation for cost-effective workflows to support patients with multimorbidity.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Implementing shared decision-making is an international priority in chronic pain care, especially for primary care clinicians. We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. Objective(s): This research explores patient navigation between primary care and specialty care to facilitate treatment completion in a health care system.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

A recent study analyzes the extent to which HIV tests are conducted following the diagnosis of an HIV indicator condition (IC) in primary care, as recommended by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States. Scores that indicate MIDAS grades III and IV should prompt clinicians to consider targeted migraine medications rather than simple analgesics.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Approximately $50 billion dollars are spent on medical costs related to falls in US older adults every year and fatal falls are on the rise. Given the prevalence of fall risk, it is not feasible for a primary care practice to implement an evidence-based risk reduction intervention on every patient before they fall.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess intervention fidelity, we are monitoring documentation in the electronic medical record (EMR) of each coached patient. Setting: CML app is being implemented across 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health, a large integrated healthcare system. Intervention/Instrument: Chart review.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. They are now expanding to influenza and tuberculosis diagnosis with the same technology. By tracking their frequency, they can assist with medical management decisions.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 12, 2023

[link] In this Infectious Disease Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Jorge Salazar presents a case to Dr. Monica Gandhi of a transgender woman with a recent diagnosis of HIV presenting with fatigue and weight loss. She also serves as the medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH (“Ward 86”).

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Depression is a costly and debilitating condition that profoundly influences a person's quality of life. In 2020, more than 21 million adults in the U.S. reported having at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. Depression symptoms increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now affect nearly 1 in 3 American adults.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 19, 2020

He then went back to Houston for medical school at the University of Texas at Houston (McGovern) Medical School. Dr. Austin Rezigh Austin Rezigh is a third-year internal medicine, primary care track resident at the University of Colorado. He is also a Section Editor for adult medicine cases at the Human Diagnosis Project.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

After completing medical school, they must complete a three-year residency in internal medicine. People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 24, 2023

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, looked at data collected as part of its Dermatology Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) project and found that primary care physician participation in the project improves accuracy and timeliness of dermatology diagnoses.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Her clinical interests include primary care and medical education. His clinical interests include cardiology and medical education. He is an aspiring Interventional Cardiologist with interests in cardiac critical care, mechanical support, medical education, provider wellness, and quality improvement projects.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

The researchers found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working memory task,” according to a press release by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The rules include changes to the notification process, medication packaging, the handling of reports, and safety issues. Please note these helpful Nonresident Pharmacy Licensure FAQs California Pharmacists can continue to provide oral therapeutics to patients after a positive Covid-19 diagnosis.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

iDeliver was developed on an open-source standards-based framework, allowing Ministries of Health to adopt, and eventually own, an advanced electronic medical record (EMR) that aligns with most national e-health strategies. Digital uptake is more prevalent in high-volume and urban hospital networks.

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Vascular Physician

JUNE 27, 2021

For proper diagnosis, a vascular specialist will complete a comprehensive evaluation that includes an ultrasound to detect varicose veins, evaluate blood flow and determine the efficiency of vein valves. There is no medical reason to wait until after women are done bearing children to treat varicose veins.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In primary care, several symptoms of PCC (e.g., Objective: This study assessed the prevalence of long-COVID symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 primary care patients compared to primary care patients not diagnosed with COVID-19. Research about PCC among non-hospitalized patients is emerging.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

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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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We make a diagnosis. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Internal medicine is a medical specialty focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Great to be back.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Then I went to medical school and I thought, “Well, should I go into psych? Issues with sleep, like insomnia, does it lead towards a diagnosis of dementia, increase your risk, or is it that people with cognitive impairment, an early-on symptom is sleep disturbances and it’s more of a sign or symptom of early cognitive issues?

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