A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. A sore knee or an annual physical are like a closeup or a panorama. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. I can take both kinds of pictures with my iPhone.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction. Non-medical interventions will sky-rocket if you pay for monitoring of behavioral interventions.

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Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 24, 2025

Whether it’s your first pap smear or you’re wondering if you can have the test while on your period, this guide walks you through the essentials of women’s health checkups, how to prepare, and common questions many patients have. Many patients search online for variations like: Can you have a pap smear while menstruating?

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

Given the complex interplay among these functions, gathering patient perspectives on those core functions seems key to effectively operationalizing and measuring them. Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services. ” 4.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our family-centered approach ensures children receive age-appropriate preventive care. Regular preventive care helps our Mesa patients address these regional health concerns proactively, leading to better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs for our community. Prevention truly is the best medicine.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 6, 2025

This health condition has no apparent symptoms, so doctors must conduct blood pressure readings to diagnose patients. Certain factors like age, high-sodium diet, genetics, lack of physical activity, obesity, and alcohol abuse will increase the risk of developing hypertension.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Ideas and stories are gaining clarity in their stew pot, gently being brewed and tenderly stirred by my gaining energy and renewed attention to the complex range of fragile emotions and simple beauties that envelope a typical work day in a busy trauma center. He was a few years shy of middle-age and appeared to be in good physical shape.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center will be located at 1201 Michigan Avenue, Suite 70, Logansport, IN 46947. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We often distance ourselves from emotions to stay focused in emergencies or maintain professionalism with patients or in power differential situations in training. Sometimes though our sympathetic response goes on overdrive and we need grounding or centering techniques. Take your own pulse." Focused breathing exercises. A good cry.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 22, 2025

Since reaching middle age, a few years ago now, I have done a fair amount of reading and thinking about the difference between spirit and soul, and I have worked hard on changing my center of gravity from my head to my heart. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Patients inquired about general advice for managing HS symptoms.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Fontana and Gitanjali Srivastava, MD , shared their perspectives with PW about current and potential MASLD treatments and their impacts on patient care. MASLD is the leading reason for referral to a hepatologist in many US medical centers. PW: How may this summary affect patient care? PW: Why was it important to do this study?

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Center for Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2025

Medication and physical therapy If lifestyle changes cannot reduce pain significantly, pain management is a useful tool. Physical therapy (PT) is a non-surgical, natural remedy for arthritis. With PT, a specialist helps the patient go through a series of stretches, exercises, and modalities to reduce pain and improve function.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Hands-on healing Physical therapy focuses on improving strength, flexibility, and function to reduce pain. Rural patients can often receive preliminary guidance from a visiting physical therapist and continue exercises at home.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. What is known, however, is disheartening. as moderate, and 10.9%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Integrative medicine centers (n=17) in PRIMIER (Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry) of the BraveNet Practice-Based Research Network. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-site observational cohort study. Descriptive statistics and linear mixed effect modelling tested changes in outcomes over time.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

One of the largest problems in our ER, it seems, is that there is a subset of patients who visit us on a routine basis. Commonly known as "the regulars," these familiar faces are sprinkled throughout our day between all our other patient visits. It seems like most of these patients simply exist in our society without participation.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Yearly check-ups are not only for people with a medical history.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As a doctor with experience in both primary care and urgent care , I’ve seen firsthand how urgent care centers have become a lifeline for many patients. Minor fractures, infections, cuts requiring stitches, and flu-like symptoms are all things urgent care centers can treat. Why Choose Urgent Care?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context and objectives First defined by a Maori nurse, cultural safety is a concept encompassing environments and therapeutic relationships that are spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically safe for Indigenous peoples; free from aggression and racism or denial of their identities or needs (23).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. For approximately 15% (61/418) of visits, clinical goals were achieved less successfully.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

from MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, and colleagues retrospectively identified and evaluated 130 ankles from 122 patients with a mean follow-up of 5.9 for the 12-item Short Form Health Survey Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary, respectively; 2.3 Jonathan Day, M.D., Schon, M.D.,

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not respond to a request for comment. The bills totaled more than $100,000. The real estate lawyer, now 67, was eligible for Medicare at the time but hadn’t enrolled. .’”

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BMJ

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

NHANES is designed and conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. NHANES collects data through interviews and physical examination covering two years in the US civilian, non-institutionalized population. Conflict of Interest: None declared

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Increasing physical activity: Regular exercise helps you slim down and boosts heart health. Rely on Imperial Center Family Medicine for a Complete Blood Pressure Management Plan Controlling high blood pressure often requires both medications and lifestyle changes personalized to your specific health profile and needs.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Increasing physical activity: Regular exercise helps you slim down and boosts heart health. Rely on Imperial Center Family Medicine for a Complete Blood Pressure Management Plan Controlling high blood pressure often requires both medications and lifestyle changes personalized to your specific health profile and needs.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. They have remained independent and committed to caring for patients as a small practice, all the while introducing new ideas and setting new standards in Michigan’s Great Southwest.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Robotic nurses dressing mannequins and bed-bathing patients Delicate movement, like gently handling an elderly patient is traditionally the most challenging task to robots, who are much faster developing in intellectual tasks than matching humans in fine-motor skills. Since then, the concept has become a reality.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It's a different way of doing healthcare, one that puts patients at the center. The Challenges of Accessing Mental Health Care I've heard countless stories from patients who have struggled to get the mental health care they need. One of my patients, Sarah, had been struggling with anxiety for years.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 6, 2023

They promise to meet patients' needs by personalizing physical and social interactions with users. However, tailoring robots to users is about more than just making the robot adjustable or personalized to the users' tastes. It is also about ensuring design justice (i.e.,

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach, and Advocacy Center at the Ann & Robert H. Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being. Sleep apnea patients can benefit from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for optimal breathing. Enjoy better overall health Poor quality sleep is the catalyst for physical health problems, such as the increased risk of chronic disease.

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Vascular Physician

MARCH 10, 2022

Typically patients get a lymphatic pump, which is a sleeve that goes over the leg and pushes the fluid from the toes back to the center of the body. MOST PATIENTS will improve with weight loss. Unfortunately, there isn't a great imaging study or test to diagnose lymphedema yet.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. Unfortunately, traditional care doctors often resort to the two easiest options for patients with joint or back pain: They send the patient for imaging or refer them to a specialist.

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