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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

It may affect your performance and relationships. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Pursue supportive relationships: We’re social beings. Many individuals, distracted by the mind’s chatter, don’t realize their level of anxiety.

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

GeriPal

We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. ” 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. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor?

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

Now, I know that’s a lot to digest, and you might be starting to churn, but let’s talk now about the relationship between eating and pain. In individuals with celiac disease, gluten intake leads to an immune mediated inflammatory response that damages the small intestine’s mucosal lining, specifically the villi.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. So just starting to unpack what’s happening in an individual’s life can maybe then lead to more conversations and assessment.

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

GeriPal

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics?