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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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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar, we critically evaluated the accomplishments and limitations of the NHSC in improving access to care for the medically underserved. Are there alternative health policies that could attract primary care and subspecialist physicians to areas where they are most needed?

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

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. I Googled his name and found another article he had written, in 2009, in the Swedish Medical Journal, Läkartidningen. That article was titled “ I worked as a Doctor for 20 Years.

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

However, as stated plainly in a recent editorial published in more than 120 medical journals worldwide , “This does not mean humanity is any safer.” In 2024, the New York City Department of Health held a series of workshops on hospital emergency responses to an improvised nuclear detonation by a nonstate terrorist actor.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

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. minutes long.

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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.