A Country Doctor Writes

JULY 1, 2025

So, instead, our patients end up going to walk-in clinics, seeing providers they don’t know who practice without the shackles of the family doctor of record. It is a vehicle for top-down government control of people’s care decisions and doctors’ behavior.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. Even though stigma prevents many persons with mental health problems from seeking care, there has never been enough go around.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And as suggested recently in the New England Journal of Medicine , One of the most important factors at play in the clinical environment is the apparent tension between availability and attention. Inconsistency in care delivery So as every provider shapes her practice around MyChart, each will do it in a slightly different way.

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