Incremental heroes

N Pimlott - Canadian Family Physician, 2017 - cfp.ca
Observing the care [in a primary care clinic in Boston, Mass], I began to grasp how the
commitment to seeing people over time leads primary-care clinicians to take an approach to …

Primary and secondary care: Breaking down barriers for our patients with chronic diseases

MD Beaulieu - Canadian Family Physician, 2013 - cfp.ca
Recently, while participating in a conference on chronic disease management in primary
care, I heard a patient's testimony that gave me pause. I was struck by his journey toward …

[HTML][HTML] No silver bullet

LC Loh - Canadian Family Physician, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Theodore Roosevelt In August 2022 my predecessor, Dr Francine Lemire, and then CFPC
President Dr Brady Bouchard published an open letter to members about the crisis in family …

[HTML][HTML] Training for primary care's future

I Ganguli - Journal of general internal medicine, 2014 - Springer
E ditor's note: With support from the California HealthCare Foundation, JGIM is pleased to
continue this occasional series of first-person narrative reports on clinical innovation. In its …

In this issue: practice change—context matters

KC Stange - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2013 - Annals Family Med
In a search for joy in practice, Sinsky and colleagues examine primary care innovations
gathered from site visits to 23 high-functioning practices. Their findings highlight the …

Be responsive to needs of patients and communities

H Ovens, E Letovsky, JR Foote - Canadian Family Physician, 2016 - cfp.ca
As family medicine–trained emergency medicine educators, we have been thinking about
these underlying issues our whole careers. Where Dr Ladouceur sees erosion, we see …

Facilitating practice transformation in frontline health care

RL Phillips, DJ Cohen, A Kaufman… - The Annals of Family …, 2019 - Annals Family Med
This supplement to the Annals of Family Medicine brings together early learning from
multiple examples of health extension and practice transformation support, with the goal of …

Outside the lines: the added value of a generalist practitioner: Dr Ian McWhinney Lecture, 2019

D Loxterkamp - Canadian Family Physician, 2019 - cfp.ca
a fellowship, a trend that has narrowed the scope of practice overall. 10, 11 Finally, the
family medicine centre has become a secondary point of first contact for medical services …

Best clinical practices coming your way

RW Curry - Patient Care, 2006 - go.gale.com
The Patient Care Board of Editors is composed of generalist physicians from both family and
internal medicine, together representing academic and private practices and incorporating …

[CITATION][C] Primary care is first-contact care

SA Martin - Journal of Family Practice, 2014 - go.gale.com
As Dr. Hickner noted in his editorial (" Have family physicians abandoned acute care?" J
Fam Pract. 2013; 62: 333), there is an increasing misconception that acute and chronic care …