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Men Over 50: 3 Common Health Problems To Ask Your PCP About

Center for Family Medicine

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. During check-ups, patients should ask primary care providers about current blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. It was eyeopening to see patients in their own home. And so that really triggered my interest.

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