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Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling

Physician's Weekly

Published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Primary Care, it was known that Emergency Departments (ED) managed fewer individuals during general practitioner (GP) service hours, but the nature of acute cases handled by GPs remained unclear. Researchers conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the types of acute medical cases presented to GPs offices. (..)

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

The individuals who make up the practice impact the community in a variety of ways. They give poster presentations on health topics at the YMCA, and this year served as the camp physician for the YMCA summer camp programs. they provide free sports physicals for youth in Berrien Springs and New Buffalo.

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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. We must recognize these struggles were born out of settler colonialism and learn this history while actively working to undo present harms.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that. I think that I want my residents and medical students and colleagues to do more than a math calculation. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. Eric: Drew, thoughts on that?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. And our target population of learners is still fellows, but we have medical students and residents and pre-med students and faculty and folks from all over the world join us for these bi-monthly online virtual meetings.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. The other thing … And I really appreciate that you brought up our residents and our medical students.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. And Covid was just.

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