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
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?
By Jake Whetzel, MD I think there were a lot of things that pointed me towards medicine initially. This included provider role models, family members with illness, and a love for understanding how the body functions and reacts to its environment. The most significant influence was a specific role model, my main primary care provider … More Role Reversal
By Joel Wecker, MD Most of the time people have reasons for their actions. Different backgrounds, values, and situations guide them to completely different paths. Values are not tested in the jobs we take or life path we are on but on the individual interactions we have everyday. I never would have expected to be … More Why Medicine?
By Anna Stomberg, MD Brainstorming on what captivating topic I could share with the “family medicine blog” I went through a number of ideas, such as “what would truly express what being a family medicine physician meant to me?” I wanted something earth-shattering, gripping, a story of rushing in to do emergent CPR, but… when … More At Home with Hospice
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