Family Medicine Vital Signs

Learners and teachers in family medicine providing insight on health care.

WANTED: “TEAMS” NOT “COWBOYS”

December 19, 2017

Originally published on University of Utah Health Accelerate Blog on October 13, 2017 Dr. Kyle Bradford Jones confronts a long-held cultural icon in medicine: the cowboy doctor. He argues that living up to the cowboy mythology undermines how physicians provide care – in trying to do it all, they actually do more harm. His cure for … More WANTED: “TEAMS” NOT “COWBOYS”

Team Based Medicine

June 30, 2016

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