Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. million Canadian patients).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. As a measles outbreak in West Texas approaches 100 cases and the national percentage of kindergarten-age children who have received measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen below 93% , vaccine conspiracy theory amplifier Robert F.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pediatr Rev May 2018; 39 (5): 247–257. Daniels, Camille Sabella; Bordetella pertussis (Pertussis).

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. 2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. Pediatrics.

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