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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Comprehensive Care General practitioners provide a wide range of services. This doctor can see patients for common ailments, vaccines, or medical conditions. You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness.

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

GeriPal

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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