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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

While some medical offices have changed to electronic forms, many still require that you put pencil to paper. 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? My patients have a say in their care.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

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. It’s everything written here about electronic health records. We’re in Quatar, Luke’s bloody diarrhea has returned. A conversation for sure.