by FMRevolution | Dec 12, 2016 | Family Medicine, Featured
I first met TJ when he was newly diagnosed with HIV. Good-looking and soft-spoken, he was an out, young, gay black man who considered himself a leader amongst his peers. TJ had been infected recently, and knowing that patients diagnosed early are thought to enjoy...
by FMRevolution | Jul 13, 2016 | Featured, Work/Life Balance
When a friend of a friend of mine committed suicide recently, it hit me harder than I would have imagined. I didn’t know the man and knew little about him other than that he was an emergency medicine resident and a member of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
by FMRevolution | Jun 10, 2016 | Family Medicine, Featured
It helps to remember that we hold the key to the health of our patients, a point that was driven home at this year’s AAFP National Conference of Constituency Leaders. I often hear that this conference is the heartbeat of the Academy, the place where key issues...
by Allison Bauer | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured, The Evolution
In the summer of 2013 I was sitting in a small humid room in a coastal agricultural town in Ecuador, a young community health Peace Corps volunteer working on his personal statement to get into medical school. A few months later I received good news, acceptance to UC...
by Allison Bauer | Jan 20, 2016 | Featured, The Evolution
Many years ago, I brought my new stethoscope up to Community Hospital and the Family Practice Center across the street on Chanate, and spent three wonderful, intense years starting to learn to be a family doctor. And began building relationships with people who came...
by Allison Bauer | Oct 28, 2015 | Featured, The Evolution
An ancient Chinese philosopher said ‘journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’. But what Lao-Tze failed to mention was that the traveler is often nudged into taking that first step. In my case, it was a fellow resident more than 18 years ago...
