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Why doctors want to know if you're lonely
Seattle Now
English - June 26, 2024 12:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 584 ratingsDaily News News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are you lonely? Be honest.
More and more doctors want to know… because it’s affecting our physical health.
We’ll talk with a UW doc about why he’s talking with patients about social isolation.
Dr. Tong’s paper in the Annals of Family Medicine: https://www.annfammed.org/content/early/2024/02/21/afm.3102
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