Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What information should you bring? A primary care visit is your chance to build a relationship with a provider who will oversee your general health. Building a strong relationship with your primary care provider starts with a single visit. What does the doctor do first? How long will it take? Answer: In many cases, yes.

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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 24, 2025

These screenings might include a pap smear, pelvic exam, breast exam, or referrals for mammograms depending on your age and family history. Whether you’re going for your 1st pap smear , a routine checkup , or to establish care , the provider’s goal is to make you feel informed, respected, and comfortable. It’s completely normal.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians has been a longtime supporter of HCH, as some of our leaders were involved as the initiative came together. Many of our family medicine physicians work in certified health care homes; they value the infrastructure that the HCH model provides to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care.

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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. Familial hypercholesterolemia is one subset of hypercholesterolemia. Records also included other information related to cardiovascular risk and history.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Réseau de recherche en soins primaires de l’ Université de Montréal (RRSPUM) is the Primary Care (PC) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DFMEM) of our University (Quebec, Canada). RRSPUM includes 19 Academic Family Medicine clinics.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. This approach could also help clinicians discuss the relationship between race and ASCVD risk. However, using race to guide clinical decisions is now controversial, potentially impacting clinician use of this tool.

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to your health, it is important that you have all the information you need to take the best care of yourself. Here are a few recommendations for questions you can ask your doctor when they recommend a medication, procedure, or treatment plan so that you can make sure you are fully informed and can make the best choice.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

They have an easier time finding healthy coping mechanisms and positive emotions, and can maintain supportive relationships. The South Dakota Department of Health offers online information about mental health. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact the Center for Family Medicine.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The Scorecard was developed in response to a call for an annual tracking tool to inform primary care policy issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in their 2021 report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. Key findings include: 1. and Medicaid to 4.3%.

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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. Always consult with a healthcare professional for any medical condition or health concern.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Building a Strong Doctor-Patient Relationship: Regular health check-ups also play a vital role in establishing a strong doctor-patient relationship. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it’s easy to put our health on the backburner. Take the first step today and prioritize regular health check-ups.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. If there are specific conditions you are worried about based on your family history or Googling or social media, write these down too.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Torrente — This sentiment is being exchanged by many with family, friends and colleagues looking forward to what we all hope is a near future in which we meet in person for work, play and everything else life has to offer. By Deborah L. Livornese & Josephine M. We at Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. But it’s just not the same.

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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? At Priority Physicians, your relationship with your primary care doctor encourages openness on this subject. Recreationally, you can have bad symptoms or overdose with THC. What Does THC Do?

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). Listen in to learn more!

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? I’m guessing not. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. Summary Transcript Summary Insomnia. We’ve all had it. Lying in bed at 2 am staring at the ceiling, getting anxious every hour that you’re not falling asleep as you have a busy day coming up. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. Thank you, Alex.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. I just listened to the one on national cancer care that we’re doing, which was very informative and pretty impressive. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. Guest Wadie L. Marcos, D.O.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing interpersonal communication between family physicians and patients with chronic conditions. Population Studied: We included studies reporting interpersonal communication between adults (≥18 years) with at least one chronic condition and their family physicians.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. I had just rounded the corner of one of our busier hallways near our noisy triage area to find a favorite aide leading a family from our waiting room down the hallway toward their assigned room. You get the picture, right?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? It’s titled the VitalTalk Method.

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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. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. On the one hand, I don’t think interprofessional teamwork needs to be scarring. On the other hand, though it goes against my middle-child “can’t we all get along” nature, disagreement is a key aspect of high functioning teams. Alex 02:38 Love it.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. Can you guys do that one? Eric 02:39 Absolutely.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Erasure often conceals the need for the collection of information that would spotlight challenges/inequities faced by Asian-Americans.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together?

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You don't want to start this new relationship off on the wrong foot by making an appointment and later finding out that they're not in-network with your insurance company. Look at their background, education, qualifications, and any other relevant information that might be available. Call Hitchcock Family Medicine today.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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). There is a dearth of Certified Driving Rehab Specialists: 12 for the entire state of Colorado!

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