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San Luis Obispo Physician Launches New Medical Practice with Exclusive Service Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

Greenough is part of a growing movement of physicians offering CCP’s FullFlex model of concierge medicine. “Welcoming my patients to this new style of medicine has been overwhelmingly positive,” Dr. Her Concierge Choice medical program is available for an annual membership fee.

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Exploring Iron Deficiency in Alberta: Following up on Clinical Observations [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Our study investigates ID prevalence in Alberta from 2010 to 2022 and its association with patient and provider characteristics. Study Design: Retrospective analysis of electronic medical data obtained from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN-CPCSSN).

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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

mHealth applications can complement and expand care provided at traditional face-to-face visits, and exploring their untapped potential to improve health in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently moved to regulate health apps that act as medical devices (e.g., Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

As described in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial , future doctors receive little formal instruction about healthy dietary habits. Current (2010) U.S. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Dietary Guidelines. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

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Effect of patient-facility language discordance on potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics in long-term care [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). Objective: To determine whether resident-facility language concordance/discordance is associated with the odds of potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics (PIP-AP) in LTC.

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Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Daniel Hale Williams practiced medicine during an era when racism and discrimination prohibited African Americans from being admitted to hospitals and denied black doctors employment on hospital staff. In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department.