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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. What does the doctor do first?

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The Importance of a Primary Care Relationship

Edge Family Medicine

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. Your PCP helps monitor symptoms, adjust medications, and coordinate with specialists.

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

GeriPal

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. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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Your First Line of Defense Against Illness

Mesa Family Physician

Primary Care and Preventive Care: How They Work Together Primary care providers are often your main point of contact in the healthcare system. They’re trained to provide both general care and preventive health services , helping you manage everyday health while staying alert to changes that could signal early disease.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? So the patient gets gabapentin prescribed from their surgeon, they see their PCP, they have a list of medications, and they all get renewed, get represcribed. Tasce: Lots of reasons.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

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. And, you know, this is back and forth between the PCP and the cardiologist. So I think more to come. Alex 45:43 Okay.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. So we actually included that in our survey.