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Welcome NEW Family Medicine Residents!

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. Kenny Lin, MD Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training.

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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. Dr. Hannah Do MD Family Medicine Physician The post What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) appeared first on Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Patricia Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003) Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic is recognised for her studies of the brain, particularly, the frontal lobes and how it relates to memory. This was fundamental in ensuring life-saving blood transfusions were safe and effective.

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