A Country Doctor Writes

JULY 1, 2025

This means we have the resources to reach out to the populations we manage and offer them immunizations, screening tests and advice without dragging them into the office one by one to do this for them (and bill their insurance for our efforts). I think we need to stop pretending that today’s primary care is patient centered.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. How do we fix this?

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

government has always had competing interests in food policy. And of course, many thousands of people - mostly young children - died every year from infectious diseases like smallpox, polio, and measles, which have been eradicated or are completely preventable by vaccines that RFK Jr. claims are worse than the diseases. But I digress.

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