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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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. Even though stigma prevents many persons with mental health problems from seeking care, there has never been enough go around.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Finding timely and specialized medical care can be quite a challenge for families, especially when it comes to pediatric endocrinology. Thankfully, pediatric endocrinology online in Canada is becoming more accessible, providing convenience and quality care to families across the country.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" 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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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Dr. Boylan also regularly checks in with patients through our convenient text-messaging app, providing an extra layer of support. “ patients have easy access to their family doctor. At Noreta Family Medicine, we believe communication should be simple and direct. We are committed to providing affordable primary care.

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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

Doctors have been at the forefront of campaigns against nuclear weapons since 1961, when Physicians for Social Responsibility was founded.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Meanwhile, the estimated time needed to provide guideline-recommended preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care to a nationally representative panel of 2,500 adult patients is an impossible 26.7 hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

A 2019 AFP editorial provided more guidance for estimating and having conversations about life expectancy with older patients. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S. in 2000 to 59.8%

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You can prove it by asking a bunch of doctors and patients how they’re supposed to use MyChart messages you’ll get a wild range of responses. Inconsistency in care delivery So as every provider shapes her practice around MyChart, each will do it in a slightly different way. Crucial that we fix this. How do we fix this?

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Physicians who practice internal medicine are called internists or internal medicine doctors. Internist vs Family Doctor: What’s the Difference?

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Don't bog down our front-line medical providers with mild symptoms. If your symptoms are minor but you are concerned, such as a sniffle or sore throat or occasional cough, stay home or touch base with your family doctor's office for further guidance. We feel helpless. Wear a mask. Don't touch our faces. Use elbow-bump greetings.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. Although I could describe to her our efforts, I wanted her to see for herself the incredible attempts of resuscitation being provided. The family doctor was called. Her heart was breaking.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

When you find yourself having to choose a doctor or switch doctors, you might come across some new terms that describe various types of medical practitioners that you may not be familiar with. This is why you must do a little research before you make a decisive stance on which doctor you choose.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. 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!) Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

My article concluded: When reviewing colorectal cancer screening test choices with patients, family physicians can continue to recommend annual or biennial FIT as a comparable option to colonoscopy. But an analysis published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that it does not.

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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. Outcome Measures: The monthly prevalence was calculated as the percent of mental health visits (MHV) among all visits to a provider in that month. Modeling used segmented time-series regression.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

On the surface, this rule aligns with the American Academy of Family Physicians’ policy that information provided in DTCA "should be accurate, balanced, objective, and complete, not false or misleading, and should not promote unhealthy or unsafe practices." The ad states that patients may pay as little as $5 per dose, 4 times per year.…

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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. growth in the U.S.

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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. This real-life scenario is probably Dr. Adam Ratner's worst nightmare, but it couldn't have come at a better time for his book.

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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. For these families, the healthiness of food may not be their top priority.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. American doctors, Canada is an excellent option for escaping from the threat of autocracy.

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