The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. Phillips, Jr.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

You Know DPC is working when… I decided to do something a little different in this blog. I’ve written blogs that discuss my perspective on why Direct Primary Care (DPC) is helpful to both patients and physicians in Columbia, SC (and beyond!). patients are able to get timely primary care.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to Get Rid of Old/Unused Medicines How many unused or expired medicines do you have in your house? As a family doctor, I hear my patients talk about their “medicine cabinet full of old medicines” all the time. Even if you don’t flush your meds, chances are that someone in your family, a neighbor, etc.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. The US Healthcare System vs…….South

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

In a research paper in the January/February 2025 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine , Dr. Erin Hirsch and colleagues rated lung cancer screening trials and the nonrandomized Veterans Health Administration Demonstration Project with an established tool that evaluated each study through a primary care lens.

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