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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Many of us know where our meals come from, have sufficient clothing, enjoy roofs over our heads, access heating and air conditioning, use reliable transportation, and receive effective medications. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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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. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen?

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. With Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani we talked about stories written up in the academic literature, such as the JAMA Piece of My Mind series. That’s medicine.

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