Medicine
In the past, I've written some serious posts about patient-centered medical homes here and here. This is not such a post, and I share it so that you know that primary care physicians doesn't always take themselves too seriously. Thanks to Georgetown Family Medicine colleague and Washington Post / Huffington Post columnist Ranit Mishori for calling this video to my attention. And by the way, please don't visit my office requesting an MRI scan without my having given you a diagnosis.
- Is Prevention Or Treatment The Heart Of Family Medicine?
The comprehensive scope of family medicine has always made it a challenge to describe, in a nutshell, what family physicians do. Unlike subspecialists or general internists, surgeons, or pediatricians, family physicians do not define their patient populations...
- Family Medicine Is "total Medicine"
A terrific article in today's Huffington Post by two of my colleagues, Dr. Ranit Mishori and Family Medicine Education Consortium executive Larry Bauer, argues that family physicians need to "get out of the shadows" and advocate...
- Patient-centered Primary Care: Easier Said Than Done
Two months ago, surgeon and New York Times columnist Pauline Chen observed that primary care demonstration projects have spent most of their efforts building components of the "medical home" - such as proactive, team-based care and health information...
- Medical Homes And The Meaning Of "p.c." - Part 2 Of 2
In my last post, I discussed the high hopes many have for improving health care through the medical home and the sobering results of the AAFP's National Demonstration Project, which fell short of fulfilling those hopes. The "PC" in PCMH stands for...
- The Best Recent Posts You May Have Missed
Every other month or so, I post a list of my top 5 favorite posts since the preceding "best of" list on this blog, for those of you who have only recently started reading Common Sense Family Doctor or don't read it regularly. Here are my favorites...
Medicine
Some levity about the patient-centered medical home
In the past, I've written some serious posts about patient-centered medical homes here and here. This is not such a post, and I share it so that you know that primary care physicians doesn't always take themselves too seriously. Thanks to Georgetown Family Medicine colleague and Washington Post / Huffington Post columnist Ranit Mishori for calling this video to my attention. And by the way, please don't visit my office requesting an MRI scan without my having given you a diagnosis.
- Is Prevention Or Treatment The Heart Of Family Medicine?
The comprehensive scope of family medicine has always made it a challenge to describe, in a nutshell, what family physicians do. Unlike subspecialists or general internists, surgeons, or pediatricians, family physicians do not define their patient populations...
- Family Medicine Is "total Medicine"
A terrific article in today's Huffington Post by two of my colleagues, Dr. Ranit Mishori and Family Medicine Education Consortium executive Larry Bauer, argues that family physicians need to "get out of the shadows" and advocate...
- Patient-centered Primary Care: Easier Said Than Done
Two months ago, surgeon and New York Times columnist Pauline Chen observed that primary care demonstration projects have spent most of their efforts building components of the "medical home" - such as proactive, team-based care and health information...
- Medical Homes And The Meaning Of "p.c." - Part 2 Of 2
In my last post, I discussed the high hopes many have for improving health care through the medical home and the sobering results of the AAFP's National Demonstration Project, which fell short of fulfilling those hopes. The "PC" in PCMH stands for...
- The Best Recent Posts You May Have Missed
Every other month or so, I post a list of my top 5 favorite posts since the preceding "best of" list on this blog, for those of you who have only recently started reading Common Sense Family Doctor or don't read it regularly. Here are my favorites...