Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. In practice, doing both simultaneously can be challenging but certainly possible with some planning. If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. Results: Clinicians with 500 or more patient contacts had an average of 2.7 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007. prescriptions, 1.1 (0.5)

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

The patients were randomly assigned to either substitute with water or continue drinking DBs for the 18-month follow-up. that diet drinks have no potential negative effects for managing weight and blood sugar,” lead author Hamid R. versus −4.85 ± 2.07 “These findings challenge a common belief in the U.S. Farshchi, M.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. AHIP previewed some of the coming changes.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? How is it different from general practice? Physicians who practice internal medicine are called internists or internal medicine doctors.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. ” I think the family would like you to consider how to work with that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And if you look at the span of history of infectious diseases, we have always managed to control all infectious diseases because we have tools because it’s the other, it’s not yourself. But we have managed to control it. Eric: We’ll talk about the management, paxlovid, too. Infectious disease is always other.

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