Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Older adults prefer to have face-to-face conversations about challenges with food but felt that their family doctor was not the right person to help. Most felt that their interactions with dietitians had been unhelpful.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the real-life experiences and impacts of primary care functional features under Shanghai’s family doctor contract service program, analyzing their effects and mechanisms on health outcomes. Population Studied: Shanghai patients enrolled in the family doctor contract service over the past twelve months.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. patients have easy access to their family doctor. At Noreta Family Medicine, we believe communication should be simple and direct. patients feel heard and valued.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that. Joseph, P.C.,

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

JUNE 20, 2024

New parents may be unsure of how often their child should visit their family doctors. According to Facts.net, typically children under one year old will need to see the doctor several times a year while older children may only need to visit annually. Your child should also visit the doctor on their fourth birthday as well.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to Get Rid of Old/Unused Medicines How many unused or expired medicines do you have in your house? As a family doctor, I hear my patients talk about their “medicine cabinet full of old medicines” all the time. Why is it important to get rid of old medicines? It’s ok to admit it.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! However, why are there so many layers of red tape to cut through in order for my patients to get care that has been recommended by me, a licensed and board-certified family physician?

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University of Utah Family Medicine Residency

JULY 19, 2023

by Caitlin Henry, MD As family doctors, we work hard to make sure their patients are well cared for. A single-payer healthcare system, which provides equally accessible care for everyone, could be a huge boost to this mission.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

This is why you must do a little research before you make a decisive stance on which doctor you choose. Which Is Better: Internal Medicine or Family Medicine? Family medicine practitioners and internal medicine practitioners—referred to as internists—both practice as physicians.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

In a research paper in the January/February 2025 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine , Dr. Erin Hirsch and colleagues rated lung cancer screening trials and the nonrandomized Veterans Health Administration Demonstration Project with an established tool that evaluated each study through a primary care lens.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Study Design and Analysis: An interrupted time series (ITS) analysis was conducted.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." How can we train more family physicians? growth in the U.S.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it. This real-life scenario is probably Dr. Adam Ratner's worst nightmare, but it couldn't have come at a better time for his book.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

Michael Pollan's pithy "eat [real] food, not too much, mostly plants"), and has received positive reviews in publications ranging from NPR to Family Medicine. For these families, the healthiness of food may not be their top priority.

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