A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits. I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information. Agreement between Proactive and the clinical examination varied by construct, ranging from 47% (Sleep) to 94% (Medication). Some comprehensibility issues were addressed in a modified version.

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Edge Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Taking Control of Your Health with Chronic Disease Management Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and COPD can be challenging, but at Edge Family Medicine , we specialize in helping patients regain control of their health. Stay Informed Learn as much as you can about your condition. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine?

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

Given the complex interplay among these functions, gathering patient perspectives on those core functions seems key to effectively operationalizing and measuring them. Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services. ” 4.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: The structured questionnaire covered various aspects of primary care practice, including the scope of clinical learners, specialties offered, onsite services, telehealth, EMR data querying, patient advisory groups, and IRB affiliation. Intervention/Instrument: N/A.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

Affiliation will allow groups to drive high-value care and innovation PORTLAND, ORE, April 16, 2025 – Oregon-based Northwest Permanente (NWP) and The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) of Northern California announced a formal affiliation today. Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance. million members in California.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

For the past 30 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has continuously supported primary care research, funding the first ECHO grant, pioneering patient-centered medical home models, and supporting primary care practice-based research networks.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you. What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do? What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do?

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Availability and Requirements Vaccination programs in communities, including schools, childcare centers, community gathering places, and homes, also successfully improve vaccine uptake, especially for children less likely to access healthcare. Requiring vaccines for school or childcare attendance can also contribute to improving it.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

The need for medical assistants is growing rapidly. Each year, an estimated 119,800 medical assistant jobs will open up across the country, including in Connecticut. Each year, an estimated 119,800 medical assistant jobs will open up across the country, including in Connecticut. Measuring patients’ height and weight.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MAY 13, 2025

Your healthcare organization has a vital untapped resource: your patient relationships. You will not have to turn away patients. There is no need to relocate physicians or patients. ​ Please contact us for more information. Our plug-and-play approach makes it simple and risk-free to launch a pilot program.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Involvement in health-related decisions is an important aspect of patient-centered care and a key component of shared decision making, a communication process by which patients and clinicians work together to make optimal health care decisions that align with what matters most to patient.

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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 24, 2025

Whether it’s your first pap smear or you’re wondering if you can have the test while on your period, this guide walks you through the essentials of women’s health checkups, how to prepare, and common questions many patients have. Many patients search online for variations like: Can you have a pap smear while menstruating?

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 28, 2025

Speaking to the American Medical Association, 2 physician leaders recently summed up how Permanente Medicine is putting those ideals into practice. At Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, patients live 6 to 8 years longer than the national average. This translates into significant improvements.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? The same year the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) reported that the region of Montreal had 2,454 family physicians. As expected, this reality most affects large urban areas and academic centers.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Induction is the brief, intense period when patients receive initial buprenorphine doses. Differences in patient and practice experiences with induction methods may influence patients’ successful transition to stabilization and long-term maintenance treatment. Funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 20, 2025

to remove all 17 of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This unprecedented dismissal disregards decades of established processes, jeopardizes public health and threatens patient confidence in vaccines. Kennedy, Jr.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Vaidyula and colleagues in Cureus.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

High blood urea nitrogen to albumin ratio values in patients with CKD are linked to greater mortality, indicating its potential value as a prognostic indicator. Adjusted Cox regression analysis confirmed the increased 28-day mortality risk in patients with a higher BAR. Compared with tertile 1, tertile 2 had a 1.49

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. Chelsea has spent the better part of a decade developing and implementing a program that ensures everyone who walks through the doors of her department at the Northwestern Medical Center (NMC) in St. More information means more choices.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: An AI clinical deterioration model-enabled intervention implemented at a large academic medical center in 2021 was recently reported to have decreased the absolute risk of care escalations among inpatients by 10.4% Setting or Dataset: An academic medical center (Stanford Health Care). over two years.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15% of adults—37 million people—have chronic kidney disease. As the disease progresses to end-stage kidney disease, patients are required to receive dialysis regularly or have a kidney transplant. In the U.S., dialysis is a costly treatment with poor health outcomes.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. The result?

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners. Government.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Diamond was caught in a fairly common coverage snag: People who have group health insurance when they become eligible for Medicare sometimes find themselves on the hook for their medical bills because their group plan stops paying. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not respond to a request for comment. .

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals. The policy would be effective January 1, 2026.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g., medical assistants) to deliver high quality cervical cancer screening (CCS).

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues. As a doctor with experience in both primary care and urgent care , I’ve seen firsthand how urgent care centers have become a lifeline for many patients. Minor fractures, infections, cuts requiring stitches, and flu-like symptoms are all things urgent care centers can treat.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days.

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