Articles
Incivility in Health Care: Strategies for De-escalating Troubling Encounters
With rudeness, discrimination, and violence on the rise, how do we take care of our patients while protecting ourselves?
The Feasibility of Screening for Social Determinants of Health: Seven Lessons Learned
If addressing patients' social needs sounds overwhelming, the results of this pilot project might surprise you.
How to Use Group Visits to Manage Obesity
Clinic and community resources combine to support patients in this unique group-visit model.
Scope of Practice: Reclaiming Young Patient Care
Caring for the whole family is a defining aspect of family medicine, yet many physicians have stopped seeing young patients. Here's why and how to welcome them back.
From the Editor
Keeping It Fresh
Variety in our daily work may be a way to improve care and satisfaction with practicing medicine.
Opinion
Beyond Burnout: Addressing System-Induced Distress
To describe the current phenomenon, we need a better term that puts the blame where it belongs and reminds us that the problem is responsive to multiple treatment strategies.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
“ESTABLISHED” VS. “NEW” PATIENT CODES | OFFICE VISITS FOR IMMUNIZATION | ADVANCE CARE PLANNING AND TIME
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
CHECK FOR FRACTURES WITH YOUR PHONE | TWO WAYS TO BETTER HANDLE TRANSITIONAL CARE MANAGEMENT | ENSURE PATIENTS' PROPER USE OF NASAL SPRAYS | SCHEDULE A ‘HAPPY HOUR’ TO SHARE EHR TIPS
The Last Word
Three Essential Skills for a Doctor That I Learned From an After-School Job as a Youth
The most unlikely of past experiences can shape who we are as physicians.