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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

If you visit a primary care doctor, you should feel at ease discussing your care and health concerns because your overall well-being depends on it. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer. Yearly check-ups are not only for people with a medical history.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Should it?

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Q&A: Encouraging Cardiovascular Risk Screening in Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis

Physician's Weekly

Michael Garshick discusses recently published recommendations for cardiovascular risk screening for patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. Patients who routinely see dermatologists or rheumatologists for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis may inadvertently miss primary care visits, leaving key cardiovascular risk factors unaddressed.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Nate 05:29 Ooh.

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"Why Everyone Is Talking About This Medical Clinic in Michigan!"

Plum Health

Whether you’re in Detroit , where fast access to care is crucial, or in the quieter town of Corunna , where personalized attention makes all the difference, this clinic delivers care that’s tailored to the unique needs of each community. The clinic’s staff can help match you with the right doctor based on your health concerns.

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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. Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. Alex: Yeah. Emmy: It’s tricky.

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