Five ways to improve family practice – view of family doctor

Five ways to improve access to care.

One of the fundamental tenets of health care is access. In politics, access is defined as having health insurance, even though access to insurance does not guarantee access to care. HEDIS defines access as getting in to see your doctor at least once per year. A better measure is to ask the patient, “How easy is it for you to get medical care when you need it?” Only about 50 percent of people re...

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First Five Years in Family Practice initiative.

UK origins The First5 concept was developed in 2008 by the Associates in Training Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom.1,2 The aim was to address concerns from trainees that, at the end of a very supportive training program, they experienced an “off-the-cliff” feeling where suddenly they were out on their own as independent practitioners in the vast and ...

Massachusetts Family Ways:

The builders of the Bay Colony also created special forms of family life which were as distinctive as their speech and architecture. The Puritans were deeply self-conscious in their familial acts. They wrote at length about the family, in a literature of prescription which was remarkably consistent with actual conditions in their households. The people of Massachusetts thought of the family not...

[Toxicity of analgesics in the family doctor practice].

Analgesic usage without any consultation with a physician is very common in Poland. It increases the risk of occurrence of the harmful effect or harmful interaction with other medicaments taken by the patient. The abuse of painkillers applies not only to opioid but also to nonopioid analgesics. The largest group of commonly available medicaments are NSAIDs. The most frequent undesirable effect ...