Make a difference: Become a positive deviant

MD Beaulieu - Canadian Family Physician, 2013 - cfp.ca
Atul Gawande1 Much remains to be done to achieve the vision of an effective, equitable,
safe, and patientcentred health care system. In a recent Commonwealth Fund survey, only …

Physicians at home in assisted living

J Kaldy - Caring for the Ages, 2014 - caringfortheages.com
There was a time when few–if any–assisted living communities would have been open to
the idea of a medical presence, much less a full-time practitioner or a medical director. But …

[HTML][HTML] A survivor's guide for primary care physicians: building office relationships and interacting with the “local landscape” are the keys to resiliency. Here's how to …

BF Crabtree, WL Miller, RR McDaniel… - The Journal of family …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
“Everyday Primary Care,” a popular, urban 3-physician family medicine office, has served
mostly middle-and working-class people for more than 25 years. Most of the patients have …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for healthcare in the 21st century: How family medicine can help

AMM Kidd - Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Michael Kidd is the President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and will
serve as World President from 2013-2016 until the next WONCA World Conference to be …

[PDF][PDF] Family physicians: first point of contact, last line of defence

N Turner - Canadian Family Physician, 2023 - cfp.ca
Nathanael Turner MD CCFP It seems an unwritten rule in life that things that bring us the
most fulfillment and joy can also be those that cause us the most stress and pain (having …

[PDF][PDF] The hospital at home model: Bringing hospital-level care to the patient

S Klein, M Hostetter, D McCarthy - The Commonwealth Fund, 2016 - core.ac.uk
In June, 67-year-old Felimon Bailon showed up in an emergency department at
Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a large and painful …

Positive deviance as a tool for organizational change

DP Tarantino - Physician Executive, 2005 - go.gale.com
The senior leadership in a hospital wants to increase reimbursement and hires a consulting
firm to assist with improving its diagnosis related group (DRG) case mix. The consulting firm …

Passing the clinical baton: 6 principles to guide the hospitalist

L Goldman, SZ Pantilat, WF Whitcomb - The American journal of medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
Hospitalist systems make it increasingly common for responsibility for a patient to be passed
from one physician to another. During such transfers, patients' outcomes and satisfaction …

Attracting small-town docs a challenge

L Eggertson - 2012 - Can Med Assoc
Card, a family physician in Mackenzie, BC, says the welcome the town gave him and wife
Jessica was a vital factor in their decision to move to the community, which is about 200 …

Family physicians deserting hospitals, says retiring CFPC president.

E Michaels - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The retiring president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) says too many
family doctors are dropping out of traditional areas of family practice. In a speech to the …