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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. How do we fix this?

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. This is where the federal government must step up.