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By Amy Locke, MD, FAAFP I think a lot about food. I think about what to make, where to go to get a great meal, and who might enjoy it with me. I get pleasure from looking through cookbooks and making shopping lists. The first thing I do when I am traveling is head to … More Bring Health Back into Medicine, One Meal at a Time
By Rebecca Currier Curran, MD, PhD On May 16, 1994, on the football field of a public middle school in rural Louisiana, a one-person airplane lifted off the ground to the cheers of the fifth graders who had built it. The plane lifted only a few feet into the air, but it was enough. … More Taking Flight: Five Lessons from Fifth Graders
By Sarah Riley-Burnett, DO Her eyes were crazed and glassy when she finally opened them. She had been writhing in the gurney, gyrating her jaw with clinched teeth and breathing heavily. When she answered questions, all her movement would stop, and she would respond in a clipped staccato formal way as though she were a … More The Girl With Chest Pain
By Bob Chestnut, MD “…we are living in this strange time where trust is more important than truth.” Comedian Hasan Minhaj at the 2017 White House correspondents’ dinner Most medical school graduates would likely agree that their education was mainly focused on developing medical knowledge. For the purpose of this blog post, I am referring … More Providing Trust AND Truth in Family Medicine
Expressed political views are those of the author. As I near the end of my Family Medicine Residency Training and begin to transition into practicing as a Family Physician in real life, I can’t help but believe that I’m ready. Not because I have reached a point where I know every diagnosis and how … More Ready or Not: Learn to Fly on the Way Down
As a residency curriculum committee we periodically review anonymous feedback from our residents about their learning experience. This is an invaluable process that brings important perspective to those of us who can lead improvements. In many cases, the improvements benefit not just residents, but faculty and patients too. An example that recently highlighted this … More Can we code more consistently by using our pool?
Family Medicine Vital Signs 