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3 Tips for Finding a Great Family Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Finding a great family doctor can be a daunting task given the critical role they play in our health and well-being. A family doctor is often your main healthcare provider tasked with everything from routine check-ups to chronic disease management. Reach out to us at Hitchcock Family Medicine.

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Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed).

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5 Questions to Ask Your Family Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 11, 2023

When it's time to go to the doctor, it is important to feel comfortable and confident that they can help you. Whether you're looking for a new primary care family doctor or getting special services, you should have some questions ready. Here are a few questions to ask your family doctor. What Are Your Office Hours?

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

MDPCP is a multi-payer "advanced primary care" program modeled after previous patient-centered medical home projects such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

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. More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal.

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

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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Corona Together

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MARCH 18, 2020

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. Be patient when you are frustrated. We are all scared. Don't engage.

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What Is the Difference Between Family and Internal Medicine?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

The main difference between them is that internal medicine physicians address medical conditions in adults while family medicine physicians specialize in treating patients regardless of their ages. For internists, their education consists of specialized medical care which is not the focus of the education of family doctors.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

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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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Interventions included patient navigation, outreach calls, and decision aids; control groups received usual care or informational materials. A systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention studies identified five randomized controlled trials and one prospective observational study.

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. The ad states that patients may pay as little as $5 per dose, 4 times per year.… Who could blame a patient for believing the drug doesn’t cost much.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

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

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Sadly, when all medical waste is somebody's income, there is little enthusiasm in the medical-industrial complex or on Capitol Hill in allocating the $3 trillion the U.S.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

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. Kennedy Jr.’s

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3 Tips for Finding a Great Family Doctor

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? [Economic or policy analysis]

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5 Questions to Ask Your Family Doctor

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

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

Corona Together

What Is the Difference Between Family and Internal Medicine?

What is primary care? Part 2

Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

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

Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

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