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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

While existing literature acknowledges the influence of sociopolitical factors on care, it often maintains a binary perspective on the relationship between state and society, hindering a comprehensive understanding of care practices. However, its future remains uncertain.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

Time constraints and pressure on physicians, leading to a decay in the doctor-patient relationship, have eroded trust. Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. The comments from readers were even more bleak.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Omolara Thomas offered the following recommendations to advocate for the communities we serve: Engage patients in non-targeted ways, asking the same questions to all patients, to gauge how government policies are impacting them. This trip was one of several that delivered aid and helped evacuate residents devastated by the hurricane.

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New Physician from Leading Sarasota Cardiology Practice to Now Offer the Hybrid Choice™ Concierge Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. Members enjoy a closer doctor-patient relationship, convenient ways to connect with their cardiologist directly, even after hours, and relaxed, same-day/next-day appointments that never feel rushed. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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An Additional Physician from Leading Sarasota Cardiology Practice to Now Offer the Hybrid Choice™ Concierge Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

The physician continues to accept insurance and government programs, as before. Members enjoy a closer doctor-patient relationship, convenient ways to connect with their cardiologist directly, even after hours, and relaxed, same-day/next-day appointments that never feel rushed. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

However, in 2016 they began to realize that the rules and oversight from insurance companies and government entities were creating an environment that took the focus of physicians away from the patients and onto their computers and the completion of irrelevant busywork. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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Portage: A cultural safety intervention co-developed with three Atikamekw communities in Quebec [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context and objectives First defined by a Maori nurse, cultural safety is a concept encompassing environments and therapeutic relationships that are spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically safe for Indigenous peoples; free from aggression and racism or denial of their identities or needs (23).

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