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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. There are many factors that impact our physical health- genetics, environmental exposures, economic resources, and behaviors. Mental health and physical health are completely intertwined.

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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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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. How a Primary Doctor Can Help You A primary doctor is one of the best health professionals to talk about your mental and physical health situations with. are about stress-related symptoms.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Release Stress Anxiety can be pathologic, resulting from a physical or mental disorder beyond an individual’s control.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

As you heal, check in with your direct primary care physician. See Your Direct Primary Care Doctor for Orthopedic Pain Management Are you concerned about swelling or recurring pain from a fall or sports injury? Good orthopedic pain management doesn’t always automatically call for imaging or a subspecialist.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC February 4, 2025 Musical icon and recovered addict Sir Elton John recently commented on the legalization of THC, the intoxicating element in cannabis.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. You want to take a good history on feeding or dietary habits.