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Why Is It Important For You To Take Care Of Your Body?

Mesa Family Physician

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that understanding why it’s important to take care of your body isn’t just about preventing illness—it’s about creating the foundation for a fulfilling, energetic life. At Mesa Family Physicians, we’re committed to supporting you on your health journey.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce. As the U.S.

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Health Care Homes Certification: Advancing Primary Care in MN

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians has been a longtime supporter of HCH, as some of our leaders were involved as the initiative came together. Enhancement of Patient Relationships The HCH model puts patients at the forefront by fostering stronger relationships between individuals and their clinical care teams.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. I’m a family physician by training.

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Characteristics of Patients with Chronic Conditions Affecting Communication with Family Physicians: A Systematic Review [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing interpersonal communication between family physicians and patients with chronic conditions. None of the existing reviews examine primary care-specific interpersonal communication for patients living with chronic conditions. Study Design: Systematic review.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. million Canadian patients).

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. Brian: I guess I’m thinking about hearing all this as a more recent product of medical education here. Susan: Great.

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