A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

We provide many more services over the phone and virtually and we have a whole division for preventative care. We are being crushed by mandated screenings for everything from obesity to domestic abuse ( see my post “ Brief is Good ”). We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Delivering parental tobacco treatment during pediatric primary care visits may help to reduce the effects of these structural barriers, thereby increasing the likelihood of parental tobacco cessation and reducing children’s tobacco exposure in these populations.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

A preventive care visit serves as one of the most valuable tools for maintaining your long-term health. Understanding Your Preventive Care Visit Your preventive care visit differs significantly from a standard office visit or sick appointment.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. The reception does the same thing, the medical assistant does the same thing.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

At Kaiser Permanente of Northern California (KPNC), we’ve proven what’s possible when prevention becomes a systemwide priority. By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes.

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