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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Relaying information between patients and providers. Professionalism: In healthcare, professional conduct involves compassion for patients and using discretion to protect private information.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. Johnson and her husband, Dustin, operate an NP-led private practice in greater Seattle, Washington, a state where she can practice independently.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. ” Emmy: I think it’s important to recognize that many primary care providers don’t have the time to be doing really comprehensive kinds of assessments.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.