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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. Kennedy, Jr.’s s previously stated intention to ban DTCA from television.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. to a massive resurgence in 2019, presaged by smaller blips in the prior years? But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it. over the past 30 years.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

Few HHS Secretaries have actually been medical doctors; Dr. Price was the first M.D. See Samoa, 2019.) s views on cancer screening. News stories have focused on his beliefs about water fluoridation, unpasteurized ("raw") milk, and vaccine safety. to hold the position in 24 years. During the pandemic, RFK Jr.