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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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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

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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People living with chronic pain face multiple difficult decisions leading to high level of decisional conflict [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Key Benefits of Regularly Seeing Your Primary Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

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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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

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.

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Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

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.

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Dermatology program brings timely and accurate diagnosis of skin conditions to underserved communities

Medical Xpress

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.