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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. In Europe, countries with stronger primary care had less unnecessary hospitalizations, especially concerning Asthma, COPD, and diabetes. 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. In medical school, I worked with Mike on the comprehensive care team long before there was Jennifer Temple’s randomized trial of outpatient palliative care for cancer.