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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

The mind-body connection has surprising implications for blood pressure management. Being aware of this intricate relationship is the first step to learning to control your emotions to improve heart health. It’s similar to revving a car engine for too long while staying still. Laughter truly is great medicine for the heart.

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Finding Your True Purpose: A Journey of Triumphs and Tragedies

Intuitive Intelligence

Raised in a culture where family ties were strong yet complex, I experienced a moment of displacement that made me question my identity. I molded myself into the image of success defined by my mom and dad– an engineer, and a doctor. But within these ups and downs lies the true discovery of who we are and what drives us.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Health systems and payers are asking primary care physicians to take on more — manage multiple complex conditions, answer patient emails, handle insurance administration, and provide mental health and social needs screenings,” said Christopher F. Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund. As the U.S.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. That’s how I managed without screaming at my 4 year old who was coping. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Eric: Can I ask why? Alex: Great, thank you, Jasmine. I enjoyed learning this song. What are they accountable for?

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