by Allison Bauer | Sep 22, 2015 | Featured, The Evolution
I want to share a recent anecdote from my clinic which highlights how patient centered family medicine is cost effective and simply good care for patients. I saw Mr. F, a 75-year-old gentleman. Like many of my patients, he has a history of high blood pressure and...
by Allison Bauer | Aug 25, 2015 | Featured, The Evolution
During one of my breaks from medical school in Cuba, I rotated at a US hospital. I was rounding with a third year Family Medicine resident who had a patient with a pleural effusion that needed draining. The resident had not done a thoracentesis before and the...
by Jay Lee, MD, MPH | Jul 28, 2015 | Featured, 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...
by David Tran | Mar 21, 2014 | Family Medicine, Featured
We have finally arrived. After four years of endless studying, constant testing, and what sometimes felt like never-ending days in the hospital, a new crop of family physicians is about to join the ranks of residents-in-training. We have, for the last six months, hit...
by Jay Lee, MD, MPH | May 7, 2013 | Featured, Leadership
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...
by Jay Lee, MD, MPH | Mar 22, 2011 | Featured, Igniting the #FMRevolution
Ah, change. Isn’t it lovely? With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) last year, much change has been afoot and most of it has been rapid and frantic change. Many stakeholders, from physicians to health plans and from patients...
