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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

My system lets me choose whether to import everything or essentially nothing from the patient’s past medical history. And the past medical history reminds me of a bag person, dragging around everything they own in a stolen supermarket shopping cart. I can take both kinds of pictures with my iPhone. Dietary strategies reviewed.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Patients share personal issues more easily and medical errors are more easily avoided. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite?