Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. Some older people are really eager to be vaccinated. Kennedy Jr.,

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

In fact, there are several ways that a family care physician can save your life. Preventative Care A family physician will have a complete medical history for you and your family. For example, if your family has a history of heart disease, they'll help you learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet to prevent cardiovascular problems.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings. What is primary care?

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JANUARY 1, 2025

Which vaccines are needed now? What symptoms warrant a trip to the emergency room vs. convenient care? No matter what stage your child is in, we are help you at Center for Family Medicine. The post Pediatric Check-Ups appeared first on Center for Family Medicine.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And so that isolation that Jessica talked about was really an example of the trauma we were experiencing.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. We did our initial pilot study.

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