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Between Patients: The Myth of Multitasking

A Country Doctor Writes

A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication. Primary care doctors don’t usually have scheduled blocks of time to read incoming reports, refill prescriptions, answer messages or, what we are told the future will entail, manage their chronic disease populations. Compare this with air safety.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Eric 26:16 I would also say, having tried to find a primary care doctor out there in the wild, you can’t. And there’s no continuity of care. I’m just going to screen everybody who’s over the age of 65 as part of my annual wellness visit for Medicare. What should I use?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: I think we’ve heard a lot about things like, “How do you embed it in preventive wellness visits?” They don’t know where to send people, and they don’t know what to do next. ” Not that everyone has those, but how do you embed it in other things? They know where to send people. Emmy: Yeah.

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