Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: We designed an hour-long student-led workshop to present to event attendees, focusing on narrative structures, their powerful influence on the illness experience, and the concept of narrative humility. Results: 31 out of the 33 respondents (93.9%) agreed that the workshop provided them with new knowledge about NBM.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Potential participants accessed the survey using a QR code on an IRB-approved study flyer posted in the community, including in restaurants, stores, bars, and at Dallas Pride events. Most respondents preferred to receive the resource in discussion with their healthcare provider and for distribution through a QR code.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JUNE 1, 2025

This is a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and allies alike unite to support each other, strengthen the community, and celebrate themselves and others with parades and joyous events. 988 provides local call, text, and chat support whenever needed.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

The best way to know if your levels fall into the unhealthy range is to get your healthcare provider to check your blood pressure regularly. Do not quit taking prescribed meds unless explicitly instructed by your provider. The post Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results. Early screening reveals these “silent” health threats that may otherwise go undetected for years until more serious heart issues such as chest pain, heart failure, or events such as heart attacks or strokes arise.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Adults ≥18 years Intervention/Instrument: Discontinuation of statin medications Outcome Measures: All-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality, and CV events (e.g., or 1-year risk of CV events (RD=1.2%, P=0.64) for statin discontinuation compared to continuation. stroke and MI).

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 5, 2025

Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Our providers offer compassionate care and practical lifestyle counseling personalized to your specific needs. The post How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine.

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Faithful MD

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I’m super excited to attend, present, and provide 1:1 consultations at #AAFPFMX this week! 🎉🎉🎉 The Family Medicine Experience (FMX) is a high energy family reunion where family physicians reconnect, learn, and grow together. Can’t wait!

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Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Focusing on these broader indicators provides a more accurate picture of your health and helps you make lasting changes that truly benefit your well-being. You might start skipping social events to avoid "unhealthy" foods, skipping meals if your “safe” foods aren’t available, or over-exercising despite injury or illness.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

In fact, for people who’ve experienced terrifying or anxiety-inducing events, therapists apply eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, a technique that mimics the patient’s REM-sleep eye movements, allowing them to “relive” and discuss the incident with decreased anxiety.) Consider us your lighthouse. Reach out anytime.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” “Whether you’re the call center agent, the receptionist, [or] the lab tech, you participate and you provide the input into innovation,” said Dr. Nguyen. The Southern California Permanente Medical Group is one of the largest medical groups in the nation with more than 8,800 physicians providing care for over 4.8

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We wish to thank everyone who provided feedback on our 2024 STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement. We carefully review all feedback to make adjustments and changes for future conferences.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You will love how easy it is to stay in contact with your healthcare provider.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. So you could start that in the emergency department if the symptoms are severe enough, provided that they have primary doctor follow ups.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 25, 2024

There are also important types of preventive medical care that need to be done as well with your family care physician. who have a primary care provider have 19% lower odds of premature death than those who only see specialists for their care when needed. Please call Hitchcock Family Medicine today to schedule an appointment.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Short-term depression following a sad event, such as a death in the family or getting fired from a job, is expected. Making the diagnosis If an adult or teen is suspected of having depression, the individual should be seen by a healthcare provider for assessment and treatment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). Using linked administrative databases, we identified all instances of PIP-AP according to the STOPP-START criteria, which have previously been shown to predict adverse clinical events such as ED visits and hospitalizations.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Eating fruit provides excellent health benefits and is part of a healthy plate. Fruits provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body. Fiber containing foods such as fruits help provide a feeling of fullness with fewer calories. Folate (folic acid) helps the body form red blood cells.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 19, 2022

Older children and teens may be extra irritable as they miss out on normal events they looked forward to and activities they enjoy with their friends. If you have a friend, relative, or neighbor with the new baby at home , think of ways you can reach out to provide support during the isolation period.​ Take care of yourself.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) combats COVID-19 misinformation in youth to reduce vaccine hesitancy through targeted outreach and education. Community members were hired as outreach workers (COW) from these communities to provide outreach, education, and connections to vaccination resources.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 2–5 These drugs are usually taken over long time periods to prevent cardiac events, yet little is known about the long-term effects on all-cause mortality. 16 Figure 1.

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