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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. Schools with primary care pathway programs that send a majority of students into non-family medicine residencies may not be creating future primary care physicians.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

Moreover, it could cost him support in the 2008 presidential primaries, where he eventually came in second place to John McCain. I've written previously about the marked contrast between HPV vaccine's extraordinary effectiveness and its underutilization in the U.S. , But if and when that percentage drops, watch out! See Samoa, 2019.)