By Ted Paisley, MD Winter is my favorite season in Utah. Snowstorms, skiing, and outdoor adventures abound. This weekend was a great example. My family managed to fit in a giant slalom race at Park City, a cross-country skate race at Soldier Hollow, and a day of powder skiing at Alta. We have been doing … More Frostbite
By Karly Pippitt, MD This is dedicated to my parents, who always taught me to be nice. As a child, my mother’s parting words to me were almost always, “Be nice.” While I may not have always followed that advice to the best of my ability as a teenager, it is a phrase I … More Be Nice
By John Houchins, MD For most of you reading this post, when you participate in our health care system it is on the provider side. If you participate on the consumer side, it is more often for preventive services than for acute care. When I participate, it is most often in the ways described above. … More An Object Lesson in Abject Circumstances
By Alex Fox, MD I have always had a fascination with the Ebola virus, ever since I read Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone at a very impressionable age (which was 10 if anyone is counting, and yes, my parents had read it and deemed it appropriate). Since that time I have watched with fascination and … More Contact Tracing, The Most Effective Tool to Stop Outbreaks
By Erika Sullivan, MD Family medicine is an interesting and wonderful landscape to spend one’s days. Like a good mystery novel, there is an abundance of unusual but endearing characters, treacherous villains (with alarmingly medical names like diabetes and anxiety NOS) and more insidious and unexpected foes, such as poverty and social injustice. When treating … More Navigating Life in Family Medicine is Like a Good Mystery Novel
Nancy Murphy, M.D., a rehabilitation specialist at Primary Children’s Hospital, developed a consultative medical home, or “Comprehensive Care Clinic” for the highest-cost, most medically complicated patients at Primary Children’s Hospital as a way to provide support to “medically fragile” children and their families. This on-call service provides preventive care that ultimately has helped reduce emergency room admissions, hospital … More ON-CALL RESOURCE FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE KIDS IMPROVES CARE, SAVES $116M
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