Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

said that their family doctor or clinic discussing their hesitations could help them gain trust in vaccines. Also, 25.9% (95%CI:19.8-33.2) received Prevnar and 23.5% (95%CI 17.6-30.7) received Pneumovax against pneumococcus, and 40.4% (95%CI 33.1-48.1) were vaccinated against Bordetella pertussis. 63.3% (95%CI 55.6-70.3)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Older adults prefer to have face-to-face conversations about challenges with food but felt that their family doctor was not the right person to help. Most felt that their interactions with dietitians had been unhelpful.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Although authorship inequity has been shown in other specialties, the current status of authorship in family medicine has not been examined.

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The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

Physicians of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds tend to migrate to affluent areas, and retirements of small-town family doctors may end up relegating some communities to welcoming a new crop of primary care clinicians every few years.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As community-based family doctors, we have been attending to patients who showed the early warning signs of the oncoming wave of our viral season. We are now in the middle of that wave: a "tripledemic" of RSV, influenza and COVID-19.

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Often taken for granted, we suggest the sounds of practice form an important role in our daily lives as family doctors. In this essay, as 2 family doctors, we reflect on the sounds of a single day in the clinic. Masked in these sounds are tacit skills and auditory expertise that speak louder than words.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Finally, it seems awkward and unrealistic for a family doctor to tell a specialist that his or her practice style is too aggressive, even if there's good data to back it up. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 9, 2025

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. It snatched me, a quiet four year old boy, almost sixty [ eight(!) ] years ago. I don’t know how it happened.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 13, 2023

Her new memoir is The Other Family Doctor. Karen Fine says "I feel like I learn from my patients all the time. They really have skills and senses that we don't." Image credit: Anton Petukhov/Getty Images)

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Medical Xpress

MAY 1, 2023

Family physicians who provided more virtual care did not have more patients visit emergency departments (ED) compared to family physicians who saw more patients in-person, according to new research.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

JUNE 20, 2024

New parents may be unsure of how often their child should visit their family doctors. According to Facts.net, typically children under one year old will need to see the doctor several times a year while older children may only need to visit annually. Your child should also visit the doctor on their fourth birthday as well.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Are there other ways we can support you on your journey as a family doctor? The post Resources for Family Physicians: Navigating Policy Changes appeared first on MAFP. We’d love to hear from you. Email us at office@mafp.org.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

Next, an asymptomatic patient with elevated blood pressure for three years, non-compliant with her medications for financial reasons (yes--I noticed the pack of cigarettes hanging from her purse), was sent to us from her family doctor to be cured on the spot. "Go Go right to the ER," she was told. Unprotected. I was disheartened.

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University of Utah Family Medicine Residency

JULY 19, 2023

by Caitlin Henry, MD As family doctors, we work hard to make sure their patients are well cared for. A single-payer healthcare system, which provides equally accessible care for everyone, could be a huge boost to this mission.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Actors from each pillar of the research continuum in the field of chronic diseases: basic researchers (Group 1), clinician-researchers (Group 2), and specialist doctors, family doctors, nurses, and patients (Group 3).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population: We interviewed family physician educators based at three teaching units in Montreal. Using a purposive approach to recruitment, participants had to be practising family doctors who supervised family medicine residents in their clinics.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all. Even if drugmakers and PBMs could be brought to heel, though, America is still lacking a major ingredient of a truly patient-centered health system: well-resourced, adequately supported primary care.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Once referred by a family doctor (which many services now help streamline), you can connect with an endocrinologist who will review your symptoms, blood work, and medical history.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

patients have easy access to their family doctor. At Noreta Family Medicine, we believe communication should be simple and direct. For instance, when a patient recently texted us with complaints of shoulder pain after a fall, Dr. Boylan arranged an appointment and ordered an X-ray — all within just a few hours. “

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Here’s a quick rundown of the process: Referral: Most virtual platforms will ask for a referral from your family doctor or pediatrician. How Online Pediatric Endocrinology Works in Canada: Accessing virtual care is a breeze.

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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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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a family doctor, I hear my patients talk about their “medicine cabinet full of old medicines” all the time. How to Get Rid of Old/Unused Medicines How many unused or expired medicines do you have in your house? It’s ok to admit it.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The practice steadily grew through the 80’s and 90’s, and Dr. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. John Proos, with the goal of providing exceptional care to the patients of Berrien County.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

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? As a family doctor, I feel that I have the medical version of a “fiduciary responsibility” to my patients – to do what is in their best interest.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

During the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union amassed nuclear weapon stockpiles with a collective destructive power hundreds of thousands of times that of the two bombs that obliterated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Internist vs Family Doctor: What’s the Difference? A common comparison is between an internist and a family doctor (or general practitioner).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Travel to the doctor’s office. In a traditional health care setting, many administrative burdens and barriers stand in the way of patients receiving evidence-based care. Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

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. Probably needs a conversation, be it on video or telephone. Too much immediate, time-sensitive hypothesis generation and testing for text exchange.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021. Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. In early 2025, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A patient with a history of headaches is brought by ambulance to the emergency department for the abrupt onset of weakness and decreased sensation in their left arm and leg. A code stroke is called. Are these symptoms of an acute stroke or a stroke mimic , such as a hemiplegic migraine ?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. Even though stigma prevents many persons with mental health problems from seeking care, there has never been enough go around.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 2, 2025

The following is a guest post from my sister-in-law, Dr. Therese Duane, a trauma surgeon who is on a medical mission in Uganda.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 15, 2025

In early 2020, I accepted an invitation to participate in a live debate with a nationally prominent academic urologist at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Men's Health. The topic: "The Great Debate of the 21st Century: To PSA screen or not to screen." Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the meeting to the canceled.

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