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How your mental health can affect your physical health

Vida Family Medicine

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. They want to live a long life free of chronic health problems that may cause pain, limit their activities, or cause complications that could land them in the hospital.

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. What is Urgent Care?

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Tips to Help your New Year’s Resolutions Stick in 2025

Noreta Family Medicine

Don’t forget about your mental health. These are good reasons to make an appointment with your primary care doctor. Elements of diet, exercise, sleep and mental health are controllable, so focus on those, instead of the pounds on the scale! Visit your primary care doctor!

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. Don’t worry; HIPAA laws protect your privacy and medical information. Knowing as much as I can about your habits helps me formulate a safe plan for your health. You can tell me anything!

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

Kahle said that includes providing resources to participants for whom sharing experiences of intimate partner violence may cause trauma or mental health distress. Additional information on the recipients, such as location and business type, came from the USAspending.gov Award Data Archive. There were 222 U.S.