Primary Care Today
Primary Care Today features conversations with clinical experts representing a wide range of medical specialties to highlight the latest trends in primary care practice, from clinical pearls to updated guidelines, health informatics, and practice management. This series is hosted by Dr. Brian McDonough, a nationally recognized clinical expert, teacher, and public speaker in primary care.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Episodes
- 382
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Treating Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective
Out of the approximately 340,000 hip fractures that occur in the US each year, 9 out of 10 of them happen to people older than 65. Hip fractures in an ol…
Sharing Tools and Assessments for Suicide Prevention Worldwide
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 44,193 Americans die by suicide each year. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSR…
Treating Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective
Out of the approximately 340,000 hip fractures that occur in the US each year, 9 out of 10 of them happen to people older than 65. Hip fractures in an ol…
Sharing Tools and Assessments for Suicide Prevention Worldwide
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 44,193 Americans die by suicide each year. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSR…
Addressing Rheumatic Diseases: Diagnostic and Treatment Updates
With more than 100 different disorders, rheumatic diseases comprise one of the most prevalent disease groups in the industrialized world. In fact, a thir…
Addressing Rheumatic Diseases: Diagnostic and Treatment Updates
With more than 100 different disorders, rheumatic diseases comprise one of the most prevalent disease groups in the industrialized world. In fact, a thir…
Immune Cells: Are They the Key to Better Allergy and Infection Therapies?
Allergies occur when your immune system mistakes a normally harmless allergen for a dangerous invader and moves to destroy it, producing an allergic reac…
Immune Cells: Are They the Key to Better Allergy and Infection Therapies?
Allergies occur when your immune system mistakes a normally harmless allergen for a dangerous invader and moves to destroy it, producing an allergic reac…
Food-Proof: A USDA Expert's Tips for Avoiding Food Poisoning
Every year, 1 in 6 Americans get sick from eating contaminated food.
USDA Food Safety expert Sarah Lichtman joins host Dr. Brian McDonough to discuss way…
Food-Proof: A USDA Expert's Tips for Avoiding Food Poisoning
Every year, 1 in 6 Americans get sick from eating contaminated food.
USDA Food Safety expert Sarah Lichtman joins host Dr. Brian McDonough to discuss way…
Millennials & Mental Health: A Generation Wrestling with Depression & Anxiety
Millennials report higher incidence and prevalence rates of depression than any previous generation. Why is this, and what can be done to help these pati…
Millennials & Mental Health: A Generation Wrestling with Depression & Anxiety
Millennials report higher incidence and prevalence rates of depression than any previous generation. Why is this, and what can be done to help these pati…
The Angry Smile: Exploring the Psychological Impacts of Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Guest: Signe Whitson
What is passive-aggressive behavior, and what can (or should) people do when confronted with it?
Host Brian McDonough sits down …
The Angry Smile: Exploring the Psychological Impacts of Passive-Aggressive Behavior
Guest: Signe Whitson
What is passive-aggressive behavior, and what can (or should) people do when confronted with it?
Host Brian McDonough sits down …
Rethinking Nicotine: The Campaign to Break the World's Tobacco Habit
Cigarette smoking is one of the leading cause of preventable death in North America, an unfortunate statistic that is rapidly replicating across the rest…
Rethinking Nicotine: The Campaign to Break the World's Tobacco Habit
Cigarette smoking is one of the leading cause of preventable death in North America, an unfortunate statistic that is rapidly replicating across the rest…
Olive Oil: The Secret Ingredient Preventing Alzheimer's Disease?
The Mediterranean Diet, rich in plant-based foods, is associated with a variety of health benefits, including a lower incidence of dementia. Extra-virgin…
Unraveling Health Disparities for Women with Parkinson's Disease
Guest: Allison Willis, MD
More men than women are diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease by almost a 2 to 1 margin. However, women receive supportive sur…
Unraveling Health Disparities for Women with Parkinson's Disease
Guest: Allison Willis, MD
More men than women are diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease by almost a 2 to 1 margin. However, women receive supportive sur…
Olive Oil: The Secret Ingredient Preventing Alzheimer's Disease?
The Mediterranean Diet, rich in plant-based foods, is associated with a variety of health benefits, including a lower incidence of dementia. Extra-virgin…