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The Back-to-School and Sports Physical Checklist Every Chapel Hill Family Needs
FAMILY MEDICINE Claire Repine, DO, MSCP FAMILY MEDICINE Claire Repine, DO, MSCP

The Back-to-School and Sports Physical Checklist Every Chapel Hill Family Needs

Somewhere in a kitchen drawer is a sports physical form that was due yesterday. It's almost never because families aren't paying attention — it's because the back-to-school health system isn't built for how busy August actually is. Here's the checklist, the NC requirements, and the one timing mistake worth avoiding.

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Summer Health Mistakes Families in Chapel Hill Make Every Year
WOMEN'S HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP WOMEN'S HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP

Summer Health Mistakes Families in Chapel Hill Make Every Year

The trails at Umstead, the greenways along Bolin Creek, the weekend soccer tournaments at Homestead Park — Chapel Hill summers fill up fast. Then July arrives, the Piedmont heat settles in, and the conditions that produce heat illness, medication complications, and chronic condition drift are quietly at work. The families who navigate it well aren't the ones who read the most wellness content. They're the ones with a physician who actually knows them.

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