Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A couple of years ago, I partnered with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Longitudinal Certificate Course project. Prioritizing your well-being makes you more efficient, effective, and present. This benefits not just you but also your family, friends, colleagues, staff, and patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians in Canada have one of the broadest scopes of practice and shortest postgraduate residency training periods among high income nations. In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 15, 2025

I never got a DUI, showed up work drunk or hungover, or screamed at my husband or family, and yet, it was an unhealthy habit I was slowly losing control over. “Sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior that enslaves you and keeps you from being present in life.” But it was also because I had a drinking problem.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

For the past few years, MAFP has provided financial support for this opportunity hoping to encourage young adults in communities under-represented in medicine to become physicians (and hopefully family physicians!). Dr. Marco Cornelio presented a brief overview of opportunities with the MAFP and AAFP.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 16, 2015

Although I pride myself on catching the obscure snapshots of typical life moments that occur daily while dealing with patients and their families in the emergency department, occasionally there are times when I am so focused on the task at hand that I completely fail to see a glaring moment of obvious humor, sadness, or tenderness.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Cohort in Primary Care (COPRI) is ongoing in 29 Family Medicine Groups (FMG) across Québec. Study design and analysis: Time between each step of the submission process were measured in days and descriptive results will be presented with tables and figures.

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Doctor Rachel

JULY 21, 2019

I don't know about you, but I have had a VERY busy spring—at work and at home—with multiple family members in need of support and medical care. When this happens, I pretty much write my own prescription, with the help and assistance of my friends and family (and especially my wonderful husband). It was just what I needed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Research shows that most children presenting to the emergency department with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine can probably be safely discharged after 2 hours. Risk thresholds differed by presentation, the researchers noted. Some families might feel risk-averse and want to stay a little longer.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures.

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Doctor Rachel

MARCH 14, 2017

I am a family practice doc who sees teens and 20-somethings daily in my practice. The lack of religious and social community, the loss of family farms, and the increasing isolation of our nuclear families create environments which are less friendly to the happiness and relaxation of teens and adults alike. And I am not alone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Family medicine research is essential to improving population health. METHODS Questions included targeted demographic variables, institutional incentives, and family medicine department scholarly output. It has the unique ability to answer questions about health care outcomes and use those insights to impact communities.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

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. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. To include partners/family/close friends is an overlooked opportunity to increase empowerment of those affected and to secure adherence. “To

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AMMD

JUNE 12, 2025

Your hypothalamus, which is responsible for managing hunger, thirst, sleep, hormones, and body temperature, among other important functions, monitors the level of thyroid hormone present in your bloodstream.(1) You might have heard the terms hypothyroidism vs. hyperthyroidism. What exactly does it mean to be hypo or hyper?

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Doctor Rachel

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many of my patients struggle with the holidays—whether alone and feeling at a distance from the holiday intensity, or flooded by sometimes challenging family and friends. Or wrapping presents in fancy gift paper, if you love it. Here’s a simple guide to finding peace, calm and real joy in this season. H O L I D A Y Home. Yah, yodeling.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

Several patients with chest pain (one requiring immediate catheterization), two patients with respiratory distress (one from skipping dialysis and one from a COPD exacerbation), and three patients from a motor vehicle collision presented almost simultaneously to our ER. I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. To pain control issues.

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CDOCS

MARCH 19, 2021

It can be very difficult to diagnose what you can&rsquo;t see, and it is impossible to treat what you don&rsquo;t diagnose. CBCT imaging shines a light on otherwise difficult diagnoses and asymptomatic pathology.</span></p> Implants and root canals can fail for a variety of reasons.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Decode Your Family History Since high cholesterol often runs in families, knowing your levels can clarify if you’ve inherited a predisposition. Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic condition causing severely elevated total and LDL cholesterol. Healthy living’s preventive payoff gets bigger the earlier it starts.

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Myriad Genetics

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“Dense breasts present unique challenges in breast cancer screening, but awareness and proactive management can help mitigate these challenges,” said Dr. Ifeyinwa Stitt, an OB-GYN physician and Myriad speaker practicing in Maryland.

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CDOCS

JUNE 3, 2019

Mischa Krebs, an oral surgeon from Alzey, Germany, presented Azento along with Azento ambassadors Dr. Darin O'Bryan and Dr. Daniel Butterman from the United States. Now Azento has crossed the Atlantic for the European launch.</p> We truly streamline digital implant workflow in three major steps; scan, approve, treat.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 26, 2024

Dense breasts present unique challenges in breast cancer screening, but awareness and proactive management can help mitigate these challenges. Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, observed in April, is a perfect opportunity to fix that, including sharing critical information about dense breasts. Dense breast tissue is normal.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. Most MAs had experience with HE activities, most commonly attending presentations on health disparities and SDOH, and screening patients for social needs. Interviews were coded for relevant content to identify common themes.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

A Goal Fulfilled I made several goals during my family medicine residency training program, one of which was to publish a research paper. Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. 1 – Doing research is time-consuming. 5 – We have more work to do.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

APRIL 23, 2019

Tracy Marr has been a patient of Family Physicians of Saint Joseph for more than a decade. Eggebrecht said that because this is such a unique healthcare model, the staff is going to be presenting the details of their office’s transition at a medical conference to other family physicians from around the country this summer.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Most saw race as being presented as biological in the ASCVD risk calculator, which concerned them. However, using race to guide clinical decisions is now controversial, potentially impacting clinician use of this tool.

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Intuitive Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Consider this: How you were raised, your family dynamics and your past experiences serve as the building blocks of your leadership style today. Remember, anything unresolved from your past has a knack for resurfacing in your present, often in the most unexpected ways. It’s a situation that many of us can relate to.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Being told you have pre-diabetes can feel overwhelming, but there’s good news: food is one of the most powerful tools you can use to manage your blood sugar. Insulin resistance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Students who reported their possible source of infection most often cited a family member (49.6%) or classmate (34.6%). Better understanding of the etiology, presentations, and patterns of pediatric acute respiratory infections can help inform medical and public health system responses to future outbreaks.

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Louisville Lectures

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Chris Reed presents an overview of congenital arrhythmogenic pathologies by first focusing on two families of diseases: structural and conduction. Finally, Dr. Reed presents management plans and when to pursue intervention. Chris Reed is a third-year fellow at the University of Louisville Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is the first study elucidating clinician knowledge on the risk and symptomatic presentation of patient arsenic exposure from well water. Study Design: A cross-sectional survey of patients and clinicians active at Mayo Clinic in the American Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

She presented hospitalization data at ACIP meetings. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they wrote. Just this April, Havers presented data showing that infants under 6 months old had the highest rates of COVID-related hospitalizations, The Post reported. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. This can help reduce anxiety, increase confidence, and give families time to plan and prepare. Such is the case with the 22q11.2

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 1, 2019

I can't pinpoint the moment exactly, but several years ago I began to notice that many of our ER patients were presenting for treatment wearing nice fluffy fleece bottoms. For the older patients, it seemed like the characters from the adult-cartoons The Simpsons and The Family Guy were a big hit. People will stare. On a weekday.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 29, 2020

[link] Dr. Leela Chockalingam presents a Human Dx unknown to Sharmin and BMC resident – Dr. Amir Gilad and Brigham resident – Dr. Hannah Chen. Her hobbies include reading fiction, being outside, and cooking for family and friends. at Boston Medical Center. at Boston Medical Center.

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CDOCS

JUNE 15, 2021

She presented with edentulous areas on the upper right and lower left, leaving her with little chewing surface in the posterior regions. Felicia presented with decay on every tooth, and on almost every surface of every tooth (Figure 9). Initial before smile photo with heavy decay and stain present on every tooth.&

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