Primary Viewpoints: A Patient Care Podcast

Welcome to the Patient Care® Online Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Heather Yun, MD, who served as IDWeek 2023 chair for the Infectious Disease Society of America, at the scientific sessions in Boston earlier this month about infectious disease surveillance in the US, the ...

Welcome to the Patient Care Online® Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Anila Chadha, MD, about the correlation between chronic pain and obesity, including the long-term effects of pain conditions for patients with obesity, common types of pain conditions associated with obesi...

Welcome to the Patient Care Online® Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with William Schaffner, MD, a well-known infectious disease expert from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. He provides an update on...

It is common for physicians to mask their emotional distress in front of colleagues and patients, making it crucial for clinicians to be on the lookout for signs of distress among their peers, according to Rebekah Bernard, MD, family physician and national speaker on physician wellness and practice management. On today’s episode of Primary Viewpoints, Dr Bernard shares common signs of emotional...

Wide variation in response to current treatments for obesity suggest that the disease is really several diseases, with distinct phenotypes unlikely to respond the same way to the same intervention. Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, whose widely recognized research focuses on precision medicine in management of obesity, sat down with Patient Care Online and details how weight management interventions targ...

"Well, we're a little bit concerned about what might happen over the next 3 to 4 months," said Sterling Ransone, Jr, MD, referring to the 2022-23 respiratory virus season now in its very early weeks. Ransone, who is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), discusses what the AAFP and its members are most concerned about as the country prepares for a third season of cocir...

Lynn R. Webster, MD, joins us in this episode to discuss findings from a large observational trial he co-authored that reviewed a mobile health technology platform developed to enhance communication between clinicians and patients with chronic pain.

Clinician burnout has undoubtedly been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of Primary Viewpoints, Ernest R. Gelb, DO, the 126th president of the American Osteopathic Association discusses how clinicians are faring currently during the COVID-19 pandemic and why humor can be beneficial for clinician wellness.

Dr Hiddo Heerspink joins Primary Viewpoints to discuss findings he recently presented at the American Diabetes Association 2022 Scientific Sessions from a pre-specified analysis (https://www.patientcareonline.com/view/kidney-outcomes-with-tirzepatide-in-t2d-hiddo-heerspink-phd-pharmd-highlights-surpass-4-analysis) of the SURPASS-4 clinical trial of tirzepatide that looked for the first time at ...

Dr Henry Mahncke joins Primary Viewpoints to talk about the impact of cannabis (https://www.patientcareonline.com/view/talking-cannabis-brain-health-why-one-expert-says-not-to-condemn-use) on brain health.  Dr Mahncke is a research neuroscientist, who serves as CEO of Posit Science Corporation, the leading provider of plasticity-based brain training and assessments. Dr. Mahncke is also princip...

Njira Lugogo, MD, sat down with Patient Care Online to discuss findings from the prespecified exploratory analysis of the NAVIGATOR study that she presented at ATS 2022.

What role do the newly approved oral migraine preventive medications play in treatment of migraine in primary care settings? We talked to headache specialist Dr Peter McAllister for answers.

Samoon Ahmad, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, discusses his upcoming book titled Coping with COVID-19: The Mental, Medical, and Social Consequences of the Pandemic.

Obesity expert Ted Kyle joins us to discuss the prevalence of weight bias in health care, how media portrayal of patients with obesity exacerbates the issue, strategies primary care clinicians can use to check their own weight bias, and the advocacy work he is currently spearheading to change the narrative of weight stigma in health care.

Welcome to the Patient Care Online Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear informative conversations with health care experts, opinion leaders, and practicing physicians, about what impacts primary care medicine today. In this episode, we spoke with Sandra Christensen, MSN, ARNP, who is a medical weight management specialist and owner of Integrative Medical Weight Management in Seattle, Wa...

"Long COVID" is a term now familiar to clinicians throughout the world. In episode 9 of Primary Viewpoints, we talked with Ani Nalbandian, MD, lead author of the most comprehensive review-to-date, about what she and her colleagues have learned. Thanks for listening to the Patient Care Online Primary Viewpoints podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you li...

At the close of the first quarter of a new year, Patient Care Online has compiled a list of new FDA-approved drugs for conditions that are often seen in primary care. Listen to our quick podcast for details on an antihypoglycemic agent indicated for the treatment of severe hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes, a novel agent for the treatment of heart failure, and 4 more.

Dr Giovanni Ferreira, lead author of a recent meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal, discusses his findings on the safety and efficacy of antidepressants used for the treatment of back pain and osteoarthritis.

In episode 6 of Primary Viewpoints, physician mental health expert Michael Myers, MD, discusses the enormous impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on physician mental health.

In episode 5 of Primary Viewpoints, Jonathan Chow, MD, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discusses the results of a landmark study he led that showed the dramatic impact aspirin had on morbidity risk among patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19.

In episode 4 of Primary Viewpoints, Patrick Moriarty, MD, from the University of Kansas Medical Center, discusses the role of Lp(a) as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the phase 3 trials of a potential treatment.

In our third episode Grace Halsey, senior editor of Patient Care Online, talks with Naomi Deirdre Fisher, MD, director of the Hypertension Service and Hypertension Specialty Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, about the challenges of hypertension management at the level of primary care. 

In our second episode Grace Halsey, senior editor of Patient Care Online, talks with Seth Baum, MD, founder and chief medical officer at Excel Medical Clinical Trials, LLC, and a clinical affiliate professor of biomedical science in the department of integrative Medical Sciences at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles H. Smith College of Medicine about lipid management in preventive cardiology.

In our first episode Grace Halsey, senior editor of Patient Care Online, talks with Peter McAllister, MD, medical director at the New England Institute of Neurology and Headache and chief medical officer for the New England Institute for Clinical Research, both in Stamford, Connecticut about the impact of COVID-19 on migraine patients.