A Country Doctor Writes

JULY 1, 2025

I wrote this when I was working for a fairly traditional primary care office, a Federally Qualified Health Center, which did have a somewhat preferential pay rate from Medicare and Medicaid, in part because we offered sliding feee to uninsured patients, in part because we offered a few “enabling services” as the bureaucrats call it.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

JULY 10, 2025

By Bright Zhou, MD, MS Most of us choose Family Medicine for the meaningful long-term relationships we form with our communities in the outpatient setting. By tracking a patient’s blood pressure or sugar fluctuations, I also sharpen my outpatient understanding of how medications can influence a patient’s vital signs.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 9, 2021

[link] Summary In this special episode of the Antiracism in Medicine Series, originally recorded for the 2021 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, the CPSolvers Antiracism team discusses what must be done to make medical education more antiracist. board examinations and mandated competencies).

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before. The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Medical Office Assistants (MOAs) are front line workers and the most accessible member of the team for patients seeking primary care. MOAs, also known as receptionists, clerks, secretaries and medical administrative assistants have direct contact with patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Health care professions students must learn to work as an IP health care team and use advanced communication techniques to address medical misinformation. Intervention: Misinformation toolkit with OSCE highlighting medical misinformation. Results: Forty students participated (20 medical and pharmacy).

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). This study explores PCP training and approaches to adult adopted patients with LFMH. A mismatch between adopted patients’ and physicians’ understandings of family medical history could strain the therapeutic relationship.

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Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

In addition to these contextual factors, 2 main themes were identified: the first revealed the impact of administrative burden on both the time available for patient care and physicians’ well-being. Conclusion Administrative burden negatively impacts physician well-being and reduces time for direct patient care.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

For centuries, we have administered medical aid through a pill bottle or, in more serious instances, an IV drip. DTx, is a classic case of the “it’s complicated” relationship status. On one hand, they stand toe-to-toe, each offering unique modes of healing, on the other, they do their best when working together.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

He believes in delivering individualized, patient-focused care by taking the time to learn each person’s unique story, lifestyle, and health goals. Dr. Ogboh collaborates closely with his patients to create personalized, evidence-based treatment plans that support their overall well-being.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 10, 2020

Dereck Paul Dereck Paul is a 4th-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and applying into residency this fall. He studies the relationships between homelessness and health under Dr. Margot Kushel at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. Dr. Kimberly Manning Kimberly D.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

is honored for his transformative work, connecting patients with primary care and critical health resources BOSTON, August 15, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation is proud to announce Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., His dedication to this cause should serve as an inspiration to the entire medical community.” Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D.,

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 14, 2021

[link] Sue Ellen presents a clinical unknown to Nick, Jennifer, and Dan Schema Episode Quiz Nicholas Hornstein Nicholas Hornstein is a PGY-3 at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. He has a passion for climbing, cooking, furry animals, and the advancement of medical genomics/technology.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 19, 2024

The grant program seeks up to five medical associations to implement programs over a period of two years for up to $150,000. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, a patients’ DOH drove 80% of health outcomes. I encourage medical associations to apply for this grant to improve health outcomes in their communities.”

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others. The high number of patient visits she had per day left her unable to take care of each patient to the best of her ability.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Describe difficulties and examples of how to measure unconscious race bias in medical practice. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner. He subsequently worked at OHSU and the Portland VA for 2 decades before moving to Johns Hopkins University.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We caught up with Dr. Osman Saleem, Medical Director for our hospital medicine practice at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, to go behind the stethoscope and learn more about how he came to Sound and his leadership journey:    When did you first consider a career in medicine? Most of all, I saw how they supported each other.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system. Additionally, our guests urge us to recognize the ways in which our patients are impacted by incarceration and to ask our patients about these impacts in order to better care for them.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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The Physicians Foundation

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Foundation’s recent survey found that while nearly all physicians agree that their patients’ health outcomes are affected by DOH, many physicians face challenges in addressing them. Expand Leadership Skills: The fellow will learn how to be a voice for change around physician-led solutions to address patients’ DOH. As the U.S.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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FDA Law

JULY 7, 2021

Gibbs — In the first challenge ever brought against FDA’s rarely used power to ban a medical device, a court found FDA overstepped its authority and overturned the ban. The use of GEDs by JRC is subject to extensive regulation by Massachusetts, including the need for a judge to authorize the treatment for any patient.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This is not a failure on our part, and we need to ensure we treat ourselves with the same care as we would our patients. Promotion of hope, self-sufficiency and care for others – Be a role model and leader for staff, patients and students, with calmness and compassion for self and others.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. There, we may do very poorly, where we can describe our beautiful models of all the kind of risk factors and contributors, ranging from organ level, patient level, behavioral, contextual, environmental.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Trainees may use this foundation to question how this might impact their medical education and think about this educational legacy may be reformed through curricular and structural changes at their institutions. This includes thinking about our roles as mandated reporters and police presence in emergency departments.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. Happy to be here.

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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. Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. Sometimes that’s medications. Cathy: Thank you.

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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. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to. One thing we’ve looked at a little bit, but it has not been well studied is the accumulation of ototoxic medications. But on the personal level, it’s an engagement issue as well. So they’re left out.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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