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Reasons to Manage Your Stress With the Help of a Primary Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Let's take a look at how you can use your primary care doctor to help identify and overcome your stress. A great way to manage stress is by talking with your primary doctor. Managing your stress will give you countless benefits that can change your life. Stress also has countless misconceptions.

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3 Conditions Internal Medicine Can Treat

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the American College of Physicians, a physician who specializes in internal medicine focuses on the treatment of sickness and diseases in adults. This type of doctor is often referred to as an internist or primary care doctor. Internal medicine can help with these types of problems.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist January 21, 2025 Orthopedic pain management is a guessing game. Good orthopedic pain management doesn’t always automatically call for imaging or a subspecialist.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. I ended up opening Noreta Family Medicine in 2020, a Direct Primary Care (DPC).

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How your mental health can affect your physical health

Vida Family Medicine

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. It is much easier to cope with and manage the physical symptoms of a chronic health condition when mental health is well-cared for.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety. First, follow conventional wisdom and count to 10. Women excel at this; men can benefit from more of it.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. And there’s no continuity of care.

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