Primary Viewpoints: A Patient Care Podcast

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, Washin...

"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 listen...

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.