Family Medicine Revolution: The Evolution
Our hashtag #FMRevolution (aka Family Medicine Revolution) was born in 2011. At the time, my aims were two-fold: “Become the physician you wrote about in your personal statement.” That family physicians and other primary care providers realize we are better than what the status quo values us at and we need to ‘revolt’ against the currently fragmented health care delivery machine that exists right now (we’ve been...
Clinical Practice: Leadership Practice
Greetings from San Francisco, where I am meeting with fellow California Academy of Family Physicians #FMRevolution-aries! Lately, I have been awash in thoughts about family medicine and leadership (blame it in part on my participation in the California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program). We are, after all, at a historic juncture in redefining how to deliver health care to more people given that health care reform is...
2013 AAFP NCSC: Being There and Giving a Damn
Hard to believe but it has been almost exactly one year since the 2012 American Academy of Family Physicians‘ National Conference of Special Constituencies. I had the privilege of serving as the Convener, or conference chair, and we all had the privilege of hearing from Dr. G. Gayle Stephens, one of the original Family Medicine Revolution-aries. During his keynote, Dr. Stephens reminded us of 3 essential values to guide our lives as...
Brains on Fire
This is the third and final blog post in series that we entitled: #FMRevolution: The Fire Within. In our first blog post, I examined the movie Escape Fire and its ramifications for innovative thinking and the movement toward health care transformation. In our second blog post in the series, I drew a connection between the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire, and #FMRevolution (We are #District12!). And now, my brain...
Family Medicine Revolution: The Fire Within (Part II)
Catching Fire In the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy, a rebellion begins to catch fire in post-apocalyptic Panem. Likewise, the Family Medicine Revolution is beginning to catch fire in the U.S. health care system. Here are three reasons why I believe that the #FMRevolution fire is catching and will continue to burn brightly: 1. Health care reform is here to stay. With SCOTUS ruling in favor of the constitutionality of PPACA...