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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. There really are no in-and-out quick visits anymore, thanks to our well meaning(?)

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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Process maps revealed similar processes across BHPs/practices with some differences in completing screening and rooming and scheduling patients. BHPs interacted with practice team members of all roles, but spent the most time consulting with medical providers, social workers, care managers, and nurses.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. How should we just universally just treat everybody? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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