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

A Country Doctor Writes

After all, we already have background information on our patients and shouldn’t have to start from scratch. 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. Each provider is aided by one medical assistant.

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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

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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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data. And in my experience the exchange of information from the Cures Act Final Rule has added new dialog around test results.

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What Is the Difference Between Family and Internal Medicine?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

The main difference between them is that internal medicine physicians address medical conditions in adults while family medicine physicians specialize in treating patients regardless of their ages. For internists, their education consists of specialized medical care which is not the focus of the education of family doctors.

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

He argued that "the pharmaceutical industry should concentrate its efforts on educating physicians about its new products, not coercing patients to put pressure on physicians to make decisions that may not be necessary, beneficial or cost-effective."