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Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?

A Country Doctor Writes

I wrote this when I was working for a fairly traditional primary care office, a Federally Qualified Health Center, which did have a somewhat preferential pay rate from Medicare and Medicaid, in part because we offered sliding feee to uninsured patients, in part because we offered a few “enabling services” as the bureaucrats call it.

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Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: A qualitative study Setting: Primary care setting in Shanghai, China Population Studied, 15 directors of the high-quality development pilot community health service centers in Shanghai were selected as interviewees.

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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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Direct Primary Care - Role for the Future of Healthcare

The Direct Doctors Difference

The Direct Primary Care movement has picked up steam over the last seven years since we started Direct Doctors in RI. According to DPC Frontier, a site owned by a DPC physician/lawyer who was a founder of the movement, there are now over 1500 clinics doing pure Direct Care across the nation.

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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up.

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Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural Northern New England for Adults [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Vaccine hesitancy is higher among rural Americans for many reasons including perceptions of risk of COVID-19, personal and/or religious reservations about the vaccines, distrust of the government and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

These experiences motivated him to complete a two-year fellowship in behavioral health and psychiatry, where he learned the biopsychosocial model and decided to make primary care mental health the teaching focus of his academic career.