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Alcohol Free for Five Years Today

Mere Mortal MD

“Sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior that enslaves you and keeps you from being present in life.” Exactly five years ago today I decided to stop drinking alcohol. In part, it was because I was very depressed, burned out from my job, and existentially unhappy. But it was also because I had a drinking problem.

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Unpacking Trust in Participatory Health Research Partnerships - A Qualitative Study in Ireland [Participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Advancements to evaluating the impact of participatory health research (PHR) have been made through comprehensive models like the community-based participatory research (CBPR) conceptual model, a useful framework for exploring how context and partnership processes can influence health research design and interventions.

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Portage: A cultural safety intervention co-developed with three Atikamekw communities in Quebec [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context and objectives First defined by a Maori nurse, cultural safety is a concept encompassing environments and therapeutic relationships that are spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically safe for Indigenous peoples; free from aggression and racism or denial of their identities or needs (23).

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Best practices to engage community members with lived experience in community based participatory research: A Scoping Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that equally engages researchers and community stakeholders throughout the research process. Extracted data was recorded and presented in tabular formats and/or graphical summaries, with descriptive overviews. 1, 1990, and Mar.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Availability and Requirements Vaccination programs in communities, including schools, childcare centers, community gathering places, and homes, also successfully improve vaccine uptake, especially for children less likely to access healthcare. Requiring vaccines for school or childcare attendance can also contribute to improving it.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

Yet, the words we use to interview patients, to document the history and physical examination findings, and to present our thoughts to our patients and to our behavioral health consultants are often extremely unhelpful and sometimes downright insulting to the patient. This is not Orwellian Newspeak; our words can heal, and they can hurt.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. When announcing the transition to a Direct Primary Care practice in April, 2017, they were met with criticism, anger, misunderstanding, and the loss of many patient relationships that meant a great deal to the entire team.