Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is associated with improved access and engagement in mental health services and mental and physical health patient outcomes. Intervention The IBH Primary Care (IBH-PC) Toolkit intervention included four components: 1) workbooks; 2) online education; 3) online learning community; and 4) remote coaching.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Persistent and distressful sexual problems are defined as female sexual dysfunction (FSD),, which can increase the risk of physical and emotional health problems. However, SDOH variables such as marital status, education level, transportation and housing did not show significant impact.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Training should also be offered as continuing education for practicing physicians and part of on-boarding. Conclusions: Our findings help understand impressions of IBH and identify barriers and facilitators in IBH adoption, particularly in non-FQHC settings.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Conclusions: Family medicine residency training is the most direct preparation for PC.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For instance, persons with symptoms related to musculoskeletal disorders, chronic pain, mobility limitations, or long COVID, for instance, could benefit from rapid access to advice and education by rehabilitation professionals, but access to public rehabilitation services is currently limited in the Canadian health care system.

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Doctor Rachel

MARCH 14, 2017

I am a family practice doc who sees teens and 20-somethings daily in my practice. The lack of religious and social community, the loss of family farms, and the increasing isolation of our nuclear families create environments which are less friendly to the happiness and relaxation of teens and adults alike. In the U.S.,

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Knowing these numbers, it’s imperative we take the opportunity for education and discussion. Mental Health Awareness Month focuses on breaking these stigmas by educating everyone on mental health, being respectful, and encouraging open conversation. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When Ashley Pantier and her husband decided to start a family, they were young, healthy, and filled with a sense of joyful optimism. We went through the pediatrician, the physical therapist, and none of those people brought up carrier screening. Ashley’s journey to a diagnosis for Christopher probably felt like forever to their family.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 9, 2023

This study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior collected data on eating and physical activity behaviors from families in two socioeconomically-different communities in Nairobi, Kenya. Researchers found that increasing prosperity is linked to unhealthy eating patterns in Kenyan preadolescents.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. To include partners/family/close friends is an overlooked opportunity to increase empowerment of those affected and to secure adherence. The results are very similar.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The Quality of Autism-Related Services While autism-related services span many areas, the researchers highlighted physical health services, behavioral health services, educational services, and employment services as crucial for people with autism. Those from marginalized backgrounds often face difficulty accessing these services.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. Today, the carceral system plays a pivotal role in modern-day eugenics and in reproductive and family control.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves. They can do this through physical exams and by sending the patient to the laboratory for blood tests and toxicology reports looking for diseases or illnesses. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He was born and raised in Westland, MI (Detroit metro area) and went to Wayne State University for his undergraduate studies thinking he would be a physical therapist, massage therapist, and dietitian (yes, all three of those). In her free time, she loves to read, try new restaurants, and spend time with friends and family.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. These changes support both your physical health and your mental well-being, and can often help prevent the need for medication. Working with a registered dietitian can also be transformative.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 25, 2021

She loves to travel, read, and enjoy meals with family and friends. As a resident, he has been involved with several educational initiatives, including co-leading the Residents in Medical Education interest group and the Point of Care Ultrasound group and serving as an Education Council representative and Simulation Program Chief.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

Encourage families to bring All About Me sheets or care cards that summarize critical accommodations. Borrow from the restaurant world: Use pagers or texting systems to allow families to wait in less stimulating environments (e.g., What you can do: Ask families whats worked (or hasnt) in the past. their car). As Nicholas et al.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network. 

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. Diagnostic delays, racial and ethnic health disparities, insurance barriers, and restricted access to appropriate treatments compound the emotional and physical burden of living with IBD.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The bills totaled more than $100,000. Costly claims may trigger an insurer to examine someone’s coverage.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Come prepared to your doctors’ appointment: Make sure you are scheduled for a problem visit, not a physical or check-up, so that you are scheduled appropriately in the correct time slot and there will not be confusion about billing. They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality. Publishing post after post, week after week, while juggling my clinical burdens, family life, personal goals, my health… it just became too much.

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Doctor On Demand

MARCH 31, 2023

The daily stress and anxiety we face in our lives play a major role in our physical health. A licensed therapist has met the educational and training requirements to practice therapy, which means they have the necessary skills and knowledge to help you with your mental health issues. We’re here when you’re ready.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Physical activity is a big one. So, that’s one thing.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot.

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Oasis Family Medicine

JULY 19, 2024

This relaxing rolling practice helps reconnect and massage the energetic pathways of the body that can become blocked by physical or emotional trauma. Combined with nutrient-rich organic castor oil, this skin roller can be used to r educe cellulite, fade stretch marks and scars, and relieve pain.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. We’re in Quatar, Luke’s bloody diarrhea has returned.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Individual, social, and built environments interact to shape physical activity (PA), with responses to environmental cues often differing by gender. Light physical activity (LPA) is infrequently studied, yet may be particularly sensitive to such influences. SS was measured using the Sallis Parental Scale.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.” I don’t see myself in that world.”

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. And then you get the call from the family, they can’t sleep at night. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Brienne. Cathy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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