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. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MARCH 25, 2022

This is why you should schedule regular medical examinations, preferably with your family doctor. What to Expect from a Medical Examination Your family doctor will check your basic health, including such issues as blood pressure and reflexes. Those who are older need one every year.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the real-life experiences and impacts of primary care functional features under Shanghai’s family doctor contract service program, analyzing their effects and mechanisms on health outcomes. Population Studied: Shanghai patients enrolled in the family doctor contract service over the past twelve months.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

million adults in Canada do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Context Over 6.5 Interprofessional team-based care can expand access to primary care, however, the relationship between interprofessional teams and their impact on primary care capacity is not well-understood.

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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

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. Supporting quotes will be presented for each theme.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. patients have easy access to their family doctor. At Noreta Family Medicine, we believe communication should be simple and direct. patients feel heard and valued.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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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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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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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

In 2000, American Family Physician published an AAFP position paper (an updated version currently resides on the AAFP website) emphasizing that “colonoscopy can be a natural extension of the total care provided by a well-trained family physician.”

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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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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik. Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

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

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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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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

MARCH 18, 2025

Primary care medical and residency faculty will learn the principles of mental health care via a train-the-trainer approach.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

This is why you must do a little research before you make a decisive stance on which doctor you choose. Which Is Better: Internal Medicine or Family Medicine? Family medicine practitioners and internal medicine practitioners—referred to as internists—both practice as physicians.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

In a research paper in the January/February 2025 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine , Dr. Erin Hirsch and colleagues rated lung cancer screening trials and the nonrandomized Veterans Health Administration Demonstration Project with an established tool that evaluated each study through a primary care lens.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Study Design and Analysis: An interrupted time series (ITS) analysis was conducted.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

Michael Pollan's pithy "eat [real] food, not too much, mostly plants"), and has received positive reviews in publications ranging from NPR to Family Medicine. It discourages intake of processed foods, eschews fad diets, aligns with mainstream nutrition guidance (e.g.,

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