Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A family care doctor can greatly assist your family. They can provide essential medical care, help you coordinate ongoing treatments, and serve as important support throughout your life. Understanding why having a family care doctor is important for all ages and the benefits they provide is crucial.

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Edge Family Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

These summer hydration tips can help you stay energized, protect your heart, and avoid heat-related illness during outdoor activity or everyday errands. Include: Watermelon Cucumbers Strawberries Celery Bell peppers Grapes These foods also provide minerals like potassium and magnesium, which support hydration at the cellular level.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Physicians, particularly primary or family care doctors, value the doctor-patient relationship too. They want time to spend with patients, to find the root cause of illness, provide lifestyle support, and help with treatment compliance. ” Their doctor makes them feel like family. But what can be done?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began to ask programs to report their efforts surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), program directors felt ill prepared to evaluate their programs and measure change. Population Studied: Program directors of ACGME-accredited family medicine residencies.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MARCH 25, 2022

This is why you should schedule regular medical examinations, preferably with your family doctor. This may be true in cases of injuries and certain chronic illnesses that require immediate attention. The scheduling of medical visits may also depend upon your family's health history. Those who are older need one every year.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 11, 2023

Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in UNC's School of Medicine have been working together to spearhead the development of a new "enhanced primary care" model to provide better primary care for patients who have severe mental illnesses.

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Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

And even if you don’t have young ones traipsing about the house, co-workers, friends and family can all share illnesses with you, often unknowingly. Luckily, nature provides high vitamin C foods just when we need them—citrus of all kinds, pineapple guavas (also known as feijoas), kiwis, Brussel sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that understanding why it’s important to take care of your body isn’t just about preventing illness—it’s about creating the foundation for a fulfilling, energetic life. Your body is the vessel that carries you through life’s journey.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three PC practices that routinely serve adolescents were selected: 2 urban practices (1 Family Medicine [FM] and 1 Pediatric [PED]) and 1 rural combined FM/PED practice. Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available. Lately, though, it seems the system meant to provide this care is being bogged down by questionable decision-making. The list goes on and on and on. To pain control issues.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Therapeutic services were provided to patients by IBH psychologists and psychiatrists. Population Studied: Primary care clinicians and staff, including IBH psychologists and psychiatrists. Intervention: NA for this portion of the study.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 16, 2023

Can you share more about what hospice care is and how it may help my family member? I have a loved one who was referred for hospice care. I'm not sure what this means.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2025

Dehydration : Busy schedules, lack of water, and even fighting off seasonal illnesses can leave moms more dehydrated than usual. Signs of mastitis, including a red, hot, swollen breast, fever, body aches, and feeling ill. This can escalate to bacterial overgrowth and, eventually, mastitis.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Ask your neighbors or family members if they can help you clean out your gutters and disconnect your hoses to prevent damage from frozen water. The internet or local library provides many options. Prepare for Power Outages and Illness It’s important to be prepared. Consider doing video-based workouts inside.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

“Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.” ” The CDC now recommends RSV vaccination for people 75 and older, and for those 60 to 74 if they’re at higher risk of severe illness (from, say, heart disease).

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Without knowing you recently lost fluids, your provider may think those higher results mean you have hypertension. Be sure to share recent fluid losses with your provider when getting screened. Certain medications or supplements can also help manage excessive fluid loss related to some illnesses.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Without knowing you recently lost fluids, your provider may think those higher results mean you have hypertension. Be sure to share recent fluid losses with your provider when getting screened. Certain medications or supplements can also help manage excessive fluid loss related to some illnesses.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they wrote. “We are deeply concerned that these destabilizing decisions, made without clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of U.S. immunization policy, impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines, and ultimately put U.S.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU.

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GomerBlog

JANUARY 23, 2021

What we found will astound, puzzle, and probably disturb you: Administration: I’m going to provide no help during the process, but be damn sure I’ll take full credit for it afterwards! Chiropractic: There is zero evidence I provide any benefit, but I’ll give you the best placebo you can imagine!

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

The state’s Department of Labor projects that healthcare practitioners and healthcare support occupations will see greater employment through 2030, particularly in chronic care and family medicine. Nurses: Nurses work as part of a team to provide care and support, and educate patients about health conditions.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Whether it be for chronic pain, for chronic illness, for companionship, simply to have a place to hang out for a few hours, or to get some food, we are often inundated with these patients at the most inopportune times. One of the largest problems in our ER, it seems, is that there is a subset of patients who visit us on a routine basis.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why X-Rays are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance. They also expose young children to unnecessary radiation.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In recent years, one of the most intriguing shifts has been the rise of concierge medicine—a model that’s redefining how patients interact with their healthcare providers. As a concierge doctor, I provide an array of services that go beyond what most patients experience in a regular clinic setting. What is Concierge Medicine?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. Even though stigma prevents many persons with mental health problems from seeking care, there has never been enough go around.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

adults experience mental illness each year. Therapists and counselors, as well as community support groups, can provide much-needed guidance. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact the Center for Family Medicine. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Your mental health matters. We’re here for you and your loved ones.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

What Mr. Brown didn't probably realize, though, is that as important as his providing a detailed history may be, these obscure observational moments, wordless and symptom-producing, can provide just as much, if not more, information to a treating physician like myself. I did get it. Until we removed his gown.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Regular health check-ups are proactive visits to your healthcare provider when you are not experiencing any specific symptoms or ailments. Regular check-ups allow your healthcare provider to conduct screenings, perform tests, and monitor vital indicators that may indicate the early onset of such conditions.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 20, 2024

At Logansport Memorial Hospital, we know how an unexpected injury or illness can impact your daily routine and quality of life. Ending up in the hospital can be scary and worrisome for patients and their families, and Eduardo Sanchez Castillo’s experience was no different. Just take it slow.”

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Types of sleep disorders Poor sleep is possible from an underlying illness or disorder. There are now sleep tracker rings, straps, and watches that monitor sleep quality, with some providing a sleep score. Some devices can provide helpful tips, leading to overall improvements in health and sleep.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common. And then you get the call from the family, they can’t sleep at night. I personally think there is no excuse for us not to be providing in getting CBTI for our patients. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. Cathy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2022

Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications. The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Recognize key diagnostic features that help differentiate Parvovirus B19 from other viral exanthems and systemic illnesses. Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. Sometimes I share it with patients and families.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

ED providers and radiologists commonly face the scenario of interpreting a CXR in a child with respiratory complaints prompting the questions: Does that infiltrate represent bacterial pneumonia, inflammation, or simply atelectasis? Drivers of CXR overuse are myriad and can be thought of at the system, provider, and patient levels.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

This seems like a lot for five straightforward ideas, but we hope that you will find ways to incorporate the evidence via this content, and learn how to have more informed discussions with patients and their families. Do not obtain radiographs in children with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first-time wheezing.

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