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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

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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

GeriPal

” Emmy: I think it’s important to recognize that many primary care providers don’t have the time to be doing really comprehensive kinds of assessments. Emmy: I remember one where a gentleman who’d had a stroke and couldn’t use his right arm anymore … maybe his right leg as well. Emmy: Yeah.

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