The lively pulse of Primary Care (with a PA spin) in an entertaining, monthly podcast.

How much do we really know about the pharmacologic treatment of alcohol use disorder? After this segment with Dr. Michael Baca-Atlas and our own Neda Frayha, the answer will be, a whole lot.

When a patient comes into your practice with blood pressures of 180/100 but they feel totally fine, what should you do? How much evaluation should they undergo? Should they be treated in the office? Or should they be referred to the ED? In this segment, Dr. Joseph Martinez chats with our own Mizuho Morrison and Matt DeLaney about the outpatient management of severe asymptomatic hypertension. 

What does the former CFO of Pixar have to do with physician burnout and the culture of medicine? We find out in this segment. Neda interviews Dr. Todd Cassese and Lawrence Levy, who helped build Pixar into the company it is today. Together they talk about changing professional cultures, the narrative of medicine being out of sync with the reality of medicine, perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and how Eastern philosophy’s The Middle Way can apply to all of our lives.

There are four main types of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and there are nuances to how each should be managed differently. In this segment, Drs. Megan Jones and Neda Frayha walk us through these four categories, how to tell them apart from one another and how to manage them, including when to consider early delivery.