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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. As shown in the following graph, primary care services amount for only 8.1%

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Advance Care Planning. Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care. I think that in almost every clinical encounter, we struggle with what’s ours and what’s someone else’s? Wounded Healer poetry sessions . Links to Redwing Keyssar’s poetry collections .