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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

If possible, the same applies to helping prevent conditions like cancer and other illnesses. Your doctor will monitor every condition, whether you have weight loss goals or a mental illness. This doctor can see patients for common ailments, vaccines, or medical conditions. When you receive quality care, it's life-saving.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. ’s recommendation that healthy children needn’t receive the covid vaccine (“ Trump’s Team Cited Safety in Limiting Covid Shots. Ours is much better.