by Matthew Varallo | May 10, 2013 | Family Medicine
As I round out my 3rd year of medical school I, along with my classmates, should be feeling the excitement of choosing the specialty that we will spend the rest of our lives practicing. Planning auditions, finding mentors, and growing into the physicians we so...
by Kyle Bradford Jones, MD | Dec 18, 2012 | Family Medicine
Baseball In the mid-1970s, Bill James was a night watchman at a factory in Lawrence, Kansas. During quiet nights, he began exploring baseball statistics in a novel way. He wanted to boil baseball down to its essentials and determine what statistic(s) most strongly...
by Kenny Lin, MD, MPH | Nov 1, 2012 | Family Medicine
This post originally appeared on October 31, 2012 at Common Sense Family Doctor Several weeks ago, Primary Care Progress asked me to serve as one of their guest bloggers for this year’s National Primary Care Week, writing on the theme: “Why is primary care...
by Jay Lee, MD, MPH | Mar 15, 2012 | Family Medicine
Remember Newton’s Second Law of Motion? To review, force = mass x acceleration. In other words, to determine the force of an object in motion, an observer must know the mass of that object multiplied by its change in speed over time. Now, work with me. Imagine that...
by Charlene Hauser, MD, MPH | Nov 23, 2011 | Family Medicine
In a down economy, with family practice residency graduation looming, I am a hotter commodity than gold right now. Recruiters compete for my attention with emails, phone calls, and fancy dinners. They’ve met my husband (who fortunately was willing to be my front...
by FMRevolution | Apr 5, 2011 | Family Medicine
Cross posted from Future of Family Medicine A multitude of factors drive students towards, or away from, the path of family medicine. Much has been made recently of reimbursement schemes that incentivize specialty practice. Certainly, medical students strapped with...
