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

A Country Doctor Writes

Or it may look like these examples: 60 year old male with hypertension, COPD and anticoagulated atrial fibrillation returns for followup. His 10 year cardiovascular risk is average but his BMI is approaching 30. Dietary strategies reviewed. What more do you really need to read next time you look through his chart?

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

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. 22 Family physicians are the sole care providers for 86% of hypertensive patients and for 71% of diabetics (based on 2.7