Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Wayne Lipton, CCP Managing Partner ​America’s trust in medical professionals is dwindling, according to Gallup’s annual professions rating , dropping from a high of 67% in 2021 to just 53% in 2024. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal interviewed physicians, attempting to make sense of the declining numbers.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Childhood is a time of growth, exploration, and, unfortunately, illness. As children’s immune systems develop, they are more susceptible to a range of common illnesses. While many of these can be managed at home, others require professional attention.

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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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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 15, 2025

Let your provider know about any medications or recent illnesses. For skin tests , your provider will measure wheal size and note if there’s flare or erythema around the site. Whether you’re exploring options through your provider or considering an at-home kit, understanding the process is the first step.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage. Efforts to explore provider confidence and knowledge on adolescent SUD, and barriers to referral are ongoing. Intervention: The CRAFFT tool was self-administered during rooming.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this article today, I am going to answer a few frequently asked questions about this illness and also learn how to get rid of it. During an illness, the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that functions as a thermostat, raises the body’s set-point temperature. Introduction: What is fever? What does fever do?

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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. Why Should We Take Care Of Our Bodies?

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AMMD

MARCH 10, 2025

The Myer’s Way® Multivitamin was specially designed to provide all the essential nutrients for thyroid function and general health. You also don’t produce as much if you’re chronically ill or stressed. Address Adrenal Fatigue You probably know your adrenal glands for producing adrenaline and managing your fight or flight response.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Hydration is surprisingly important in blood pressure management. How Dehydration Influences Blood Pressure Readings Your level of hydration directly impacts the accuracy of your blood pressure management screening. Without knowing you recently lost fluids, your provider may think those higher results mean you have hypertension.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Hydration is surprisingly important in blood pressure management. How Dehydration Influences Blood Pressure Readings Your level of hydration directly impacts the accuracy of your blood pressure management screening. Without knowing you recently lost fluids, your provider may think those higher results mean you have hypertension.

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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. She and I agreed to get our case management team involved to see what our options in helping Kevin might be on this day.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone. As these recent examples indicate, AI-based facial analysis can provide a wealth of vital patient information that can aid in clinical decision-making.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Physicians can often literally meet patients where they are and address the broader social determinants of health, such as housing, education, and income, which significantly impact patient well-being and illness prevention. Connect patients with local resources such as food banks, housing assistance, and mental health services.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. A family care doctor can greatly assist your family.

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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. Concierge medicine is a healthcare model that offers patients personalized care, better access to their doctor, and a more proactive approach to managing their health.

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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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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. Alice Kuo and Ilene Claudius Podcast EIIC: Safe Control of the Agitated Patient Webinar Series with Dr.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

In addition, Melinda Wharton , a top CDC official who managed ACIP operations, was removed from her role last week. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they wrote. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos , a CDC vaccine adviser, also resigned. vaccine program. “We

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Oasis Family Medicine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Now is the perfect moment to start focusing on your immune system to prevent or reduce the impact of seasonal illnesses. In this post, I want to share some practical resources to help you boost your immune system and minimize the risk of illness. These foods provide the nutrients your immune cells need to function optimally.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. An essential part of the diagnostic process involves creating a problem representation (PR) and then trying to match that PR to a specific illness script.

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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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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Between coughs, he managed to give me a faint smile. 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.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Misconception #2: DPC Mandates a Switch in Primary Care Providers (PCP) Employees aren't required to change their PCP under the employer-sponsored DPC model. DPC can be offered as an optional benefit, providing a convenient, preventive care solution that removes the common deterrents to seeking care. Sadly, up to 80% do not.

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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. These changes can also help with weight management and cognitive function, potentially improving sleep disorders. There are now sleep tracker rings, straps, and watches that monitor sleep quality, with some providing a sleep score.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Many urgent care clinics now offer mental health services , including medication management for anxiety and depression, or help during a panic attack. For instance, if you’re running low on a critical medication like an antidepressant and can’t get in to see your regular provider, urgent care can help bridge the gap.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

This financial predictability allows for better budgeting and resource allocation.​ – Reduced Operational Costs : Implementing energy-efficient technologies, such as LED lighting and automated energy management systems, can decrease energy consumption by up to 30%, leading to further cost reductions. ​

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. Caution While this study provides important insights, it is worth noting that probiotics may still play a role in other health contexts.

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Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Focusing on these broader indicators provides a more accurate picture of your health and helps you make lasting changes that truly benefit your well-being. You might start skipping social events to avoid "unhealthy" foods, skipping meals if your “safe” foods aren’t available, or over-exercising despite injury or illness.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. For more severe symptoms, in-person care may be the recommended course of treatment, and your virtual provider can help you make that decision. With telehealth, you can quickly get an initial evaluation, prescriptions, or follow-up care.

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PEMBlog

MAY 28, 2025

Emergency medicine providers should maintain a high index of suspicion for these entities in children and adolescents with known or suspected SLE. Spot urine protein:creatinine ratio provides rapid assessment of proteinuria. Differential includes infection, medication toxicity, and primary psychiatric illness. Nature Reviews.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. It offers us a path toward reclaiming our time, reducing burnout and ultimately enhancing the care we provide.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Did you know that these tests are very expensive, and that they rarely alter management? Did you know that Choosing Wisely recommends that we do not routinely obtain them for respiratory viral illnesses? Did you know that there are comprehensive respiratory viral panels that will test for dozens of viruses all at once?

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. Recognize key diagnostic features that help differentiate Parvovirus B19 from other viral exanthems and systemic illnesses.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home.

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