Download or read book Searching for the Family Doctor written by Timothy J. Hoff and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With family doctors increasingly overburdened, bureaucratized, and burned out, how can the field change before it's too late? Over the past few decades, as American medical practice has become increasingly specialized, the number of generalists—doctors who care for the whole person—has plummeted. On paper, family medicine sounds noble; in practice, though, the field is so demanding in scope and substance, and the health system so favorable to specialists, that it cannot be fulfilled by most doctors. In Searching for the Family Doctor, Timothy J. Hoff weaves together the early history of the family practice specialty in the United States with the personal narratives of modern-day family doctors. By formalizing this area of practice and instituting specialist-level training requirements, the originators of family practice hoped to increase respect for generalists, improve the pipeline of young medical graduates choosing primary care, and, in so doing, have a major positive impact on the way patients receive care. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty-five family doctors, Hoff shows us how these medical professionals have had their calling transformed not only by the indifferent acts of an unsupportive health care system but by the hand of their own medical specialty—a specialty that has chosen to pursue short- over long-term viability, conformity over uniqueness, and protectionism over collaboration. A specialty unable to innovate to keep its membership cohesive and focused on fulfilling the generalist ideal. The family doctor, Hoff explains, was conceived of as a powered-up version of the "country doctor" idea. At a time when doctor-patient relationships are evaporating in the face of highly transactional, fast-food-style medical practice, this ideal seems both nostalgic and revolutionary. However, the realities of highly bureaucratic reimbursement and quality-of-care requirements, educational debt, and ongoing consolidation of the old-fashioned independent doctor's office into corporate health systems have stacked the deck against the altruists and true believers who are drawn to the profession of family practice. As more family doctors wind up working for big health care corporations, their career paths grow more parochial, balkanizing the specialty. Their work roles and professional identities are increasingly niche-oriented. Exploring how to save primary care by giving family doctors a fighting chance to become the generalists we need in our lives, Searching for the Family Doctor is required reading for anyone interested in the troubled state of modern medicine.
Download or read book The Family Doctor Speaks written by Jr. M. D. Jackson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He couldn't believe what he was asked. At his medical school interview, Dr. Robert Jackson, Jr. remembers being asked his feelings about abortion, which being pro-life meant he was against. Little did he know he would journey a pro-life pilgrimage as a Christian doctor not only caring for patients' medical needs, but in speaking the truth in love against abortion. His medical testimony and patient stories embody his new book, The Family Doctor Speaks - The Truth About Life, where he describes becoming a Christian doctor in Manning, South Carolina during the early Roe vs. Wade generation. Over the years, he continued to strengthen his pro-life stance and became a doctor counseling patients with Christian principles of child-raising. Abortion statistics and its contrast to scriptural truths the book presents, but the stories of lives touched by Robert's pro-life guidance in love are most impactful in the battle of pro-life vs. abortion.
Download or read book All in the Family Doctor Included written by Vladimir Tsesis and published by Vladimir Tsesis. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a pediatrician's spiritual odyssey into the heart of the family and is a remarkable work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. This kindly physician - whose earlier work, Who's Yelling in My Stethoscope?, earned many devoted readers - brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice gleaned from his busy pediatrics practice.
Download or read book The family doctor a complete encyclop dia of domestic medicine and household surgery by a dispensary surgeon written by Family doctor and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Koop written by Charles Everett Koop and published by HarperPrism. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former U.S. Surgeon General offers a compelling and candid account of his life in a stunning portrait of growing up in early 20th-century America, a rare glimpse of a great surgeon in the making, an honest and sometimes shocking tale of how Washington politics can undermine the public's health (Timothy Johnson, M.D., Medical Editor, ABC News). Photographs.
Download or read book Bryson City Tales written by Walt Larimore and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivating stories of how a young doctor's first year of medical practice in the Smoky Mountains shaped his practice of life and faith. The little mountain hamlet of Bryson City, North Carolina, offers more than dazzling vistas. For Walt Larimore, a young "flatlander" physician setting up his first practice, the town presents its peculiar challenges as well. With the winsomeness of a James Herriott book, Bryson City Tales sweeps you into a world of colorful characters, the texture of Smoky Mountain life, and the warmth, humor, quirks, and struggles of a small country town. It's a world where the family doctor is also the emergency physician, the coroner, and the obstetrician, and where wilderness medicine is part of the job, search-and-rescue calls in the national forest are a way of life, and the next patient just may be somebody's livestock or pet. Bryson City Tales is the tender and insightful chronicle of a young man's rite of passage from medical student to family physician. Laughter and adventure await you in these pages, and lessons learned from Bryson City's unforgettable residents.
Download or read book The Family Doctor Being a Complete Encyclop dia of Domestic Medicine and Household Surgery By a Dispensary Surgeon written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can AI Be Your Family Doctor written by KHRITISH SWARGIARY and published by ERA, US. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we stand on the precipice of a new era in healthcare, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical practice invites both excitement and trepidation. The question at the heart of this book, Can AI Be Your Family Doctor? arises from a world increasingly influenced by technological advancements. Family medicine, traditionally anchored in the principles of compassion, continuity, and comprehensive care, is being reshaped by the capabilities of AI to analyze vast amounts of data, enhance diagnostic accuracy, and personalize treatment plans. In recent years, we have witnessed rapid developments in AI applications across various sectors, and healthcare is no exception. The emergence of AI-driven tools is promising, offering solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in medicine, such as patient management, early disease detection, and equitable access to care. However, these advancements also prompt essential discussions about ethics, the preservation of human touch in medicine, and the future roles of healthcare professionals. This book endeavors to explore the multifaceted relationship between AI and family medicine. It does not seek to replace the invaluable human element of patient care but rather to investigate how AI can complement and enhance the work of family doctors. Through comprehensive research, real-world case studies, and insights from healthcare experts, we will uncover the potential of AI as a partner in the healthcare journey, providing tools that empower patients and practitioners alike.
Download or read book Life and Decline of the Family Doctor written by Charles Rees and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comes from my experiences as a family doctor in a small town in Dorset England for 38 years covering 1972 to 2010. During most of that time being a Family Doctor was more than being a General Practitioner. I have tried to explain the changes that occurred without trying to extol the virtues of a golden age which never existed. The process of computerisation, advances in medicine, change in the family, de-skilling of the doctor, training of GPs and the rise of the ‘portfolio’ doctor are covered hopefully without over-doing it. I hope I have explained how doctor and patient became distanced and why. All through this period the control by Government extended. The Doctor now works for the Government and not the patient. Since I retired from the Practice 10 years ago the concept of a patient having their own Doctor for decades or generations has largely gone. What I have tried to do is to explain the changes and why they happened and to do it through the people I lived along side and cared for. They were sometimes hard work, sometimes irritating, often chaotic and occasionally terribly funny. But in the end they were my patients and I was their Doctor.
Download or read book From the Family Doctor to the Current Disaster of Corporate Health Maintenance written by Thomas C. Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has tried to outline where we now stand on the issues of proper patient care. The authors have not wished simply to return to the glorious past but to identify what has happened to the old family doctor tradition and to find a way to salvage the part of that tradition that can insure that the wonderful activity of attention to patient first and foremost can be preserved. It will be a difficult task as the pressures are tremendous in the other direction. But it is possible to reverse inappropriate and possibly illegal pharmaceutical company advertising and physician payments, to find a way for government funding of education so that young doctors do not feel bound to financial gain rather than social responsibility, and to set up a structure of health care delivery that does not require fee-for service hospitals and clinics. We, as doctors, nurses, and medical educators believe it can be done. We also believe the concept of a doctor who is only interested in his or her patients well-being has not really died but has been put on hold by false advertising, short term financial gains, and technologytemporarily, we hope. Help us help your doctor to see what fun and personal fulfillment proper attention to his or her patients can bring. You can do it. Call your doctor!
Download or read book The Last Family Doctor written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Family Doctor is the story of William Stepansky, a remakable family doctor who touched thousands of lives. Beginning in 1953, he provided all the scientific medicine had to offer to the small rural communities he served in eastern Pennsylvania. And he did so with an embracing humanity, an ability to contain the pain, suffering, and anxious concern of others that is integral to the all but lost art of medicine.
Download or read book The Family Doctor written by Mary Spring Walker and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Family Doctor written by Timothy Newell and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everything Under the Sun written by MD Bruce Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family medicine encompasses everything about a person. Through multiple personal experiences and clinical vignettes, Dr. Bruce Rowe shares the special moments that define the life of a family physician. Health care professionals will identify with Dr. Rowe's journey and the many hats he wears in clinical practice: obstetrician, psychiatrist, geriatrician, internist, pediatrician. Midwesterners and small-town residents will appreciate Dr. Rowe's rural Iowa upbringing and how it impacts his values and bedside approach to patients. Anyone who enjoys a good read about interesting people, entertaining case histories and how medicine can positively affect families and communities will be enriched by reading this book.
Download or read book The Attributes Professional and Social of the So Called Family Doctor Being the Annual Oration Delivered Wednesday February 8 1882 Before the Hunterian Society at the London Institution Finsbury Circus written by Robert Fowler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Windblown The Remarkable Life of Richard S Buker Jr MD A Family Doctor written by Larry W. Halverson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House Calls written by Thomas L. Stern and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-town doctor Thomas Stern built a practice filled with memorable characters in rural Oregon. Then he moved to Southern California to work as technical advisor on the beloved TV series, "Marcus Welby, M.D". His life story is filled with episodes that are thought-provoking, heart-warming, and even rib-tickling.
