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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to Healthcare IT News, just 67% of millennials have a primary care physician. Comprehensive Care General practitioners provide a wide range of services. You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness. Yet, it is an invaluable service.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? Lightning round: magic wand.

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