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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. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. Phillips, Jr.

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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

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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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data. And in my experience the exchange of information from the Cures Act Final Rule has added new dialog around test results.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. I recently finished seven consecutive shifts in which I, along with my incredible co-workers, have been part of our hospital's evolving approach to the growing concern of Covid-19.

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

Common Sense Family Doctor

The agency's budget was zeroed out by the House of Representatives and narrowly restored by the Senate in 1995 after a 21 percent cut and a name change to emphasize that its mission would be to produce evidence to inform policy, rather than attempt to actively shape policy. Why do I care? Why should you?

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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.