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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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A Goal Fulfilled

Noreta Family Medicine

I have personally seen the benefits of Direct Primary Care for both patients and doctors, but there is very little published research about DPC. We decided to compare burnout and fulfillment scores between Direct Primary Care doctors and primary care physicians working in non-DPC practices in SC, NC, and GA.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Find a caring primary care doctor: As a direct primary care physician, I devote time to sit down with patients and learn about their lifestyles, hopes, desires, worries, and concerns.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. An Individual Decision Besides considering THC’s illegal status in Indiana, the choice to use is an individual one. Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! THC overdose is possible.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. I think most primary care providers feel it’s really important. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

” Eric: It strikes me that there also seems to be a difference between coaching a team, like many of us are familiar with, and this individual coaching, although there may be group coaching as well. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.