VIDEO: As primary care physicians, ‘everything we do is state dependent’

SAN DIEGO — Physicians often rely on data to convince patients to change certain behaviors, but they can draw from a variety of resources, according to Ed A. Tori, DO, FACP.
“There are many ways, many disciplines, many domains that we can borrow from ... we can implement them to move patients to better behavior,” said Tori, associate director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation.
Tori said the biggest take-home message from his talk at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting is that “everything we do is state dependent.”
“The highest-yield thing you can do —

SAN DIEGO — Physicians often rely on data to convince patients to change certain behaviors, but they can draw from a variety of resources, according to Ed A. Tori, DO, FACP.
“There are many ways, many disciplines, many domains that we can borrow from … we can implement them to move patients to better behavior,” said Tori, associate director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation.
Tori said the biggest take-home message from his talk at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting is that “everything we do is state dependent.”
“The highest-yield thing you can do —