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. He pushed it and the furnace started instantly.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith proposes a pathway to redirect the medical-industrial complex "back to a more humanistic orientation," which involves commissioning a "New Flexner Report" and federally-led reforms to medical education to require schools to fully embrace the biopsychosocial model. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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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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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You can prove it by asking a bunch of doctors and patients how they’re supposed to use MyChart messages you’ll get a wild range of responses. 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.

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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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