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Talking Therapy Reduces Depression, Anxiety Symptoms in Stroke Survivors

Physician's Weekly

Stroke survivors were less likely to reliably recover and more likely to reliably deteriorate after psychological treatment compared with a matched sample without a stroke; these relationships were attenuated after adjustment for level of physical comorbidity.

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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Phase-1: We conducted a hybrid deductive-inductive thematic analysis, identified the types of outcomes, and displayed the relationships between these types on a concept map. Population Studied: Family physicians, general practitioners, and patients. Setting: Community-based primary health care.

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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

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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7 Tips for Choosing a Primary Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

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. Some people are lucky enough to have several offices at their disposal, while others may need to travel a little bit farther.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite? Here are the key results.