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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

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! While some medical offices have changed to electronic forms, many still require that you put pencil to paper. I have to admit that I’ve never watched an episode of South Park.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

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.