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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. Phillips, Jr.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

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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Shorter stays, better outcomes

Sound Physicians

So, too, should outpatient providers that serve as a patient’s first point of entry into the health system. Family practitioners hold critical knowledge about that patient’s health history to help guide a more successful stay in the hospital.

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Welcome Dr. Ruffo

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Welcome Melissa Beinlich, OMS-III

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