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3 Tips for Finding a Great Family Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

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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How Often Should You See Your Family Doctor?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

This is why you should schedule regular medical examinations, preferably with your family doctor. Seeking care from a primary care physician instead of a specialist can also be beneficial in terms of reducing your medical expenses. This is why those under the age of 50 should seek a medical examination every three years.

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Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?

A Country Doctor Writes

So, instead, our patients end up going to walk-in clinics, seeing providers they don’t know who practice without the shackles of the family doctor of record. It is a vehicle for top-down government control of people’s care decisions and doctors’ behavior. Each provider is aided by one medical assistant.

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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. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

Forty years ago, Eric Redman's classic book The Dance of Legislation provided a compelling "insider's account" of how the U.S. Envisioned by Seattle pediatrician Abraham Bergman, MD as a way to recruit idealistic young physicians to "doctor deficient" communities throughout the U.S.,

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Resources for Family Physicians: Navigating Policy Changes

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

As a member-driven, member-led organization, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians remains steadfast in our mission to support Minnesota’s 3,100+ family physicians, resident physicians and medical students in providing high-quality, comprehensive and continuous medical care for patients of all ages.

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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available.

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