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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

Preventive Services Covered by Health Insurance The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover preventive services without charging copayments or coinsurance. Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns.

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

Plum Health

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. Urgent care centers are often staffed with experienced doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who are fully equipped to handle a wide range of medical issues.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. How high is too high? Should considerations differ for people with dementia?

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Doctor: "You are ready for discharge."

Mere Mortal MD

People are not usually fond of hospitals, especially if they happen to be the patient. Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. I don’t see myself in that world.” It’s amazing.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical. We work with most major insurance plans and offer transparent pricing options for self-pay patients.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary As Eric notes at the end of today’s podcast, we talk about many difficult issues with our patients. But one issue we’re not as good at discussing with our patients is sexual health. Clearly this issue is important to patients. You know, I address all the supportive care needs of my patients.

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