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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. A primary care visit is your chance to build a relationship with a provider who will oversee your general health. People often search: What happens at a new patient visit?

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Interactions of Multiple Chronic Conditions and Sludge on Treatment Burden and Delayed/Skipped Colorectal Cancer Screenings [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Using regression analyses, we evaluated the relationship of sludge and MCC status on treatment burden and on delayed/skipped screenings. We used ICD-10 codes from patient records and the CMS Chronic Conditions algorithm to categorize MCC status. Setting Regional health system in southwest Virginia. had no MCC and 45.6%, 0.8%, 22.4%

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Create spaces to have conversations about the broader contexts affecting patients. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. This is Eric Widera. Which I thought were great questions. Eric: Yeah.

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