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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Regardless of the severity of a patient's illness and diagnosis, time and again I am now witnessing an unsettling fear in their eyes, conveying a belief that somehow Covid-19 is playing a part in their (lack of) well-being. Please let us focus on the critically ill. And the truth is, I am not sure what to think at this point.

ER 100
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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. 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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Measles, vaccine hesitancy, and the ACIP

Common Sense Family Doctor

70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. Increasing vaccine hesitancy has depressed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination rates in the affected jurisdictions, making more people vulnerable to the highly contagious illness.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

over the past 30 years. This is the perfect book for a very imperfect era, when the future health of our nation very much hangs in the balance.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. AHRQ supports research that generates evidence about "effective models of care, patient- and family-centered care, shared decision making, quality improvement, and health information technology."

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. I only wish I had read this article a month ago.