Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 24, 2025

Whether it’s your first pap smear or you’re wondering if you can have the test while on your period, this guide walks you through the essentials of women’s health checkups, how to prepare, and common questions many patients have. Many patients search online for variations like: Can you have a pap smear while menstruating?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed).

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AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

Move your body : I like taking walks with my family and dogs. Or maybe you often walk into a room and forget what you went in there for? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many people experience this mental cloudiness. What’s behind it? Understanding the causes of brain fog can help you clear the haze and regain mental clarity.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state. What is a Health Care Home?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. What is known, however, is disheartening.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that about 1 in 10 American adults have hypercholesterolemia , also known as high cholesterol.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. That’s how often Chelsea Mulheron finds herself asking women in her clinic about their family history of cancer. I am empowering patients to help them improve their health,” says Mulheron. Helping patients identify whether they are at high risk is care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient satisfaction is often seen as a key indicator of patient-centered care. Organizations want to ensure that patients feel valued, respected, and supported throughout their healthcare journey. Satisfaction scores pre-intervention is to be compared to post-intervention results.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Patient advocates say they frequently hear from people who, like Diamond, thought they didn’t need to sign up for Medicare upon turning 65 because they had group health coverage. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. There goes my retirement.’”

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. Senior care: Both medical groups are dedicated to improving care for older patients.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Ideas and stories are gaining clarity in their stew pot, gently being brewed and tenderly stirred by my gaining energy and renewed attention to the complex range of fragile emotions and simple beauties that envelope a typical work day in a busy trauma center. I am again eager to capture in words these pure moments. Another cough.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Decode Your Family History Since high cholesterol often runs in families, knowing your levels can clarify if you’ve inherited a predisposition. Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic condition causing severely elevated total and LDL cholesterol. Healthy living’s preventive payoff gets bigger the earlier it starts.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. Still, some experts remain skeptical.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad. Such is the case with the 22q11.2

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Vida Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a family physician, I spend a lot of time with patients focusing on how to best take care of themselves to prevent or manage chronic disease. Often when I meet a patient who is taking steps to improve their health, the first thing that they do is make changes to what they are eating.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? Who should get it if anyone? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 28, 2025

So, get ahead by looking up nutrition information online and deciding what to order before you arrive. Imperial Center Family Medicine ’s team of healthcare providers offers personalized guidance to help patients gain control over cholesterol. Eating at restaurants can be a headache when you have high cholesterol.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. A colleague brought information to Nav that Osler had brought remains of Indigenous people as a gift to one of his mentors in Germany.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome a wonderful group to talk about deprescribing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Eric: Yeah.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. & A healthy 46-year-old patient who has lived for over 30 years with missing bilateral maxillary incisors desired a fixed solution to his problem.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Summary Transcript Summary Insomnia. We’ve all had it. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Brienne.

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Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

If you’re considering replacing alcohol with THC (for example, if you have kidney issues and can’t imbibe), how do you make an informed decision? Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. Guest Wadie L. Marcos, D.O.

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StorytellERdoc

MAY 7, 2020

Her fingers entwine the plastic Minnie Mouse bracelet she is wearing, given to her by a patient with leukemia. He signs off the last of information on his seventh patient to his replacement, sharing the important medications, vitals, activities, and care-plan in depth. She doesn't want to be late for her family reunion.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. Be patient when you are frustrated.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A US-based study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 69% of patients reported avoiding discussions about death, but 92% reported feeling somewhat comfortable talking to a heath care provider about EOL wishes. Setting or Dataset: Outpatient palliative care cancer clinic at a tertiary health care center in the U.S.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay. Lyndsay: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Should you stop at “no?” That’s a huge amount of news all at once.

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