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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 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. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? Wounded Healer poetry sessions . Redwing’s website: www.redwingkeyssar.com.