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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. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Congratulations Dr. White.well deserved

OCFM

White.well deserved December 07, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO Cherryville’s White is N.C.’s Notice of Privacy Policy

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. RESULTS 54.3% (n=150) of the respondents were midwives/nurses and 45.7% (n=126) were physicians.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care. in 2023-24. in 2023-24.