By Jennifer Dailey As I sit in room 445 of the Utah Capitol building mentally prepping for my presentation to the Interim Health and Human Services Committee on Family Medicine residency expansion in Utah, I am reflecting a bit on my three years with the Utah Academy of Family Physicians (UAFP) as its director and … More Advocacy and Family Medicine: Where the Twain Shall Meet
By Erin McAdams, MD Picture compliments of http://worldartsme.com/ When you go to the doctor’s office, you might be fooled into thinking that your doctor is the person managing your healthcare. In some respects, you would be right. The person you are seeing in your appointment is in fact contributing to the management of your health … More Team Based Medicine
By Becky Abbey, MD Father of 3, loving husband, successful attorney, and heroin addict. One of these things does not belong. This kind, middle-aged man, a patient of mine, first became addicted to opioids after a shoulder surgery gone awry. The surgery left him in more pain than before the operation, and he was readily … More Chronic Pain and Narcotics in Family Medicine
By Melissa See, MD I had it all planned out. The night before, I set out what I was going to wear: a tan cropped blazer with capped sleeves over a golden rod empire waist pleated dress. The next morning, never mind the butterflies in my stomach, I was ready for my first day of … More From Pipeline to Mainline: How increasing diversity in higher education can have a positive impact on addressing health disparities (and other good things).
By Jordan Knox, MD Occasionally I’ve been wondering: What would I be doing if I weren’t in medicine? Usually on some of my darker days, because let’s face it: as much of a privilege as it is to care for other people, there are times when you just aren’t enjoying it as much. So I … More What Would You Do If You Weren’t In Medicine?
The big elephant in the room in health care is our dramatically high medical costs. Indeed, you can read almost everywhere about why they are so high, and what we can do from a more “global” perspective to address them. But when we consider the influence that primary care providers have on individual cost decisions, … More How can we assist primary care providers in decreasing health costs?
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