A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 1, 2025

Primary care doctors don’t usually have scheduled blocks of time to read incoming reports, refill prescriptions, answer messages or, what we are told the future will entail, manage their chronic disease populations. Slow and fast visits require different mindsets and skill sets.

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Patients Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Wellness Visit 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. What should I use?

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: I think we’ve heard a lot about things like, “How do you embed it in preventive wellness visits?” Emmy: Following up later, they stayed in our observation unit overnight to seek physical therapy, occupational therapy, get hooked up with case management, the functional side that they really needed.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102