Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures: Based on the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, we collected data on difficult decisions faced when interacting with health care providers, the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS≥25 or DCS≥37.5) Half (49%) of respondents made their most difficult decision with a primary care physician.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In fact, cough accounts for one in five reasons we seek assistance from a healthcare provider. We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. One example is the clinically validated VitaloJAK.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Choosing the right diabetes doctor can make a major difference in how effectively your condition is managed, your quality of life, and your long-term health outcomes.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I'm Dr. Paul, a direct primary care physician here in the Detroit, Michigan. I've seen firsthand the challenges people face when it comes to accessing quality mental health care. Long wait times, high costs, and limited availability of providers can make it feel like you're on your own. Hey there, Michigan!

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Medical biller: Medical billers are responsible for submitting claims to patients’ insurance providers, and following up to ensure the practice receives payment. Authorization specialist: Authorization specialists are responsible for getting pre-authorizations from patients’ insurance providers to ensure upcoming services are covered.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In recent years, given significant challenges with accessing primary care physicians in Canada, there has been increased attention towards involving other health care providers, such as rehabilitation professionals, for managing different conditions.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

A family doctor is often your main healthcare provider tasked with everything from routine check-ups to chronic disease management. Here are some essential tips to guide you in locating the best family physician for your needs. Here are some essential tips to guide you in locating the best family physician for your needs.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Direct primary care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare model that offers patients unlimited access to a primary care physician for a fixed monthly fee. Personalized care: DPC providers have more time to get to know their patients and develop personalized treatment plans.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you are considering healthcare jobs in CT, the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut (PACT) is a leading employer in the state. With over 30 physician partners and more than 100 healthcare providers, PACT is committed to healthcare excellence, innovation, safety and quality. Why choose a career in healthcare?

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A family care doctor can greatly assist your family. They can provide essential medical care, help you coordinate ongoing treatments, and serve as important support throughout your life. According to Healthcare IT News, however, less than 68% of Millennials have a primary care physician.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. What Medical Assistants Do Medical assistants play a crucial role in healthcare by supporting physicians and other providers.

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to your health, it is important that you have all the information you need to take the best care of yourself. Your doctor's job is to provide you with recommendations for managing your health based on their expertise, but it is ultimately your decision whether or not you will carry out those recommendations.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

Early detection not only facilitates effective management but also significantly reduces the risk of vision loss. This thorough examination involves eye care professionals using drops to dilate pupils, allowing for a detailed assessment of the optic nerve, intraocular pressure measurement, and visual field evaluation.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. This again illustrates how DPC is an escape fire.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Differentiate between stigma and bias in health care and the electronic health record using provided examples. Her research focuses on understanding how stigma impacts access to care for people living with chronic pain and opioid use disorder.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety. First, follow conventional wisdom and count to 10. Consider us your lighthouse.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Definitive Guide to Selecting the Best Primary Care Physician in Michigan Choosing the right primary care physician (PCP) can feel like a daunting task, especially when you're looking for convenience and quality in a bustling state like Michigan.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you. Do you have the song request for Alex?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

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 don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

While some of these changes are inevitable, many can be managed effectively with early intervention and regular medical care. A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Merola, MD, MMSc, and Brittany Weber, MD, PhD, crafted practical recommendations enabling dermatologists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians to embed cardiovascular risk evaluation into psoriatic disease management. How will these recommendations impact healthcare providers? Intake is very important.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

“It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. ” In 27 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 20, 2025

Your Connecticut-based primary care physician may refer you to an endocrinologist — or you may decide to see one on your own — if you have a hormonal condition like diabetes or thyroid disease. Endocrinologists play a crucial role in managing the hormone imbalances that weaken bones.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , where fast access to care is crucial, or in the quieter town of Corunna , where personalized attention makes all the difference, this clinic delivers care that’s tailored to the unique needs of each community. Residents of Lansing trust this clinic because of its reliable chronic disease management programs.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

As explained more fully below, CDC concedes that states, insurers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers have implemented laws, regulations and policies that have misapplied the 2016 guideline. We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In addition, the guideline has been misapplied to cancer and palliative care patients, and there have been rapid opioid tapers without patient collaboration, rigid application of opioid dosage thresholds, application of opioid use for pain to opioid use disorder treatment, insurer and pharmacy duration limits, patient dismissals and abandonment.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. In fact, there’s a lot of studies that support that disclosure actually provides a lot of satisfaction for our trans individuals because then they get to be really seen.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. If we can be a little bit more holistic and think through what are the medicines that are going to provide the greatest bang for your buck and get rid of the stuff that probably isn’t going to do anything.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

In our results, approximately 90% of health care professionals rated the risk of contracting COVID-19 as very high/high, and approximately one-third rated the risk of dying from the disease. Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures. BMC Fam Pract. 2020;21(1):151. 2021;9(4):e001228.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

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