Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Chronic low back pain referred to the leg (CLBP-L) is common in primary care, debilitating, and expensive. Routine care includes epidural steroid injection (ESI), the effectiveness of which is often limited. There were no adverse events. 001; 95% CI [4.0-18.5]) 18.5]) and 12 (16±20 vs 8±19 points; p=.04;

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. In primary care it is usually sufficient to know that a patient has had two myocardial infarctions and one coronary bypass. I can take both kinds of pictures with my iPhone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is common in primary care; up to 43% patients report residual instability and 21.4% report recurrent sprains after conservative care. Better non-surgical care is needed. Satisfaction with DPT was high; no procedure-related adverse events were reported. to 6.89, P=0.017).

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. Perhaps a plan from the Healthcare.gov marketplace?

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Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

You might start skipping social events to avoid "unhealthy" foods, skipping meals if your “safe” foods aren’t available, or over-exercising despite injury or illness. When Dieting Takes a Dangerous Turn Some people may believe that if they just try harder, they can lose the weight. But this mindset can lead to dangerous behaviors.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

In November 2024, two new RCTs were published that investigated whether atrial fibrillation screening using an ECG is effective. Both showed no significant benefit. Nevertheless, it is recommended in the new ESC guidelines. Here are some insights. A limitation was that only 49% of those invited participated in the screening.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access? Some older adults may need access to a structured intensive behavior therapy delivered by a trained primary care clinician.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

For each diet, adverse events were infrequent. The first three weeks of each diet were when most blood pressure reduction occurred. The effect of sodium reduction appeared stronger than the effect of the DASH4D diet. also from Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Mild-to-moderate gastrointestinal events were the most common adverse events with orforglipron. From baseline to week 40, the percent change in body weight was −4.5, −5.8, percent with the 3-mg, 12-mg, and 36-mg doses, respectively, and −1.7 percent with placebo.

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Therefore, primary care researchers may be unsure about how to go about planning and conducting a longitudinal qualitative study in family medicine, and about the value of such design. LQR’s focus on change and continuity lends itself well to the health care context and to primary care. the COVID-19 pandemic).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure. The FDA approval is based on positive results from two international phase 3 trials that compared Widaplik to dual combinations of its component drugs as well as to placebo.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

The groups did not have any significant differences in adverse events. Clinical cure at day 14 and no recurrence with or without additional treatment was observed in 78.4 percent of patients receiving FMT and vancomycin, respectively. “FMT even showed a 5.4

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to identify and analyze potential cases of antibiotic resistance (ABR) using a global pharmacovigilance database. They searched VigiBase, the WHO global database of adverse event reports, up to October 3, 2022, to identify suspected ABR cases.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

percent in indoor activities were seen in counties in Oregon and Washington, respectively, during the wildfire events; increases of 11 and 16 percent were experienced in major cities like Portland and Seattle. Average increases of 10.8

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Regularly talking with people you care about may help you avoid the need for antidepressants. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Having Smaller “Mini” Heart Attacks Reduces Your Risk For A Major Event A heart attack of any size indicates existing cardiovascular disease. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

Out of curiosity, I turned to Brighton-based Your Choice Direct Care. Headed by Dr. Chad Savage, direct primary care, or DPC, is insurance-free health care. Insurance is necessary, of course, for the expensive medical events — diseases like cancer, traumas from auto accidents, and major surgeries.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 5, 2025

Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Similarly, angry outbursts unleash a flood of stress hormones, constrict blood vessels, and quicken the pulse. Finding healthy emotional outlets is essential.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right? So we did primary care. You know, maybe egocentric, I’m a primary care doc. Amy 26:45 Right.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. Harmful prescription drug-drug interactions (DDI) arise when the effects of one drug change the effect of another drug and increase the risk for an adverse event, including therapeutic failure.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. This is obviously ordered by a gastroenterologist, but But the probe itself measures reflux, and then the patient can press a button for an event monitor. Also get a pH monitoring and impedance probe. It’s kind of like a Holter monitor for reflux.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

Also Read: The Most Common Respiratory Diseases Affecting Men’s Health When Stress Is the Likely Culprit Sometimes, symptoms are directly tied to life events or mental strain. You might also be referred to your primary care provider, OB/GYN, or an endocrinologist for further evaluation.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. Lona: Yeah, no, I think, Thank you for the question. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

While some of these changes are inevitable, many can be managed effectively with early intervention and regular medical care. A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. How can events linked to climate change affect children’s mental health? Shah, DO, and Maya I. Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS, wrote in a commentary for Pediatrics.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 25, 2024

There are also important types of preventive medical care that need to be done as well with your family care physician. who have a primary care provider have 19% lower odds of premature death than those who only see specialists for their care when needed. Preventative care is crucial to your long-term health.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. We do that in medicine all the time.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay. He’s in Boston. And Matt brought today’s topic to us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And usually we want like 20 to 50 people to come to one of our group events.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Although having plaque is worse than having no plaque, studies have shown that people who exercise regularly have fewer (cardiac) events and lower mortality than those who don’t exercise. Our point is that people who exercise like this may have more plaque.

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