Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. Family medicine today is therefore more important than ever.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Advance Care Planning. Wounded Healer poetry sessions .

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125