Andrew Schechtman, a family physician in a 12-doctor practice in San Jose, Calif.
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In fact, your family physician sees more patients virtually than in the real world.
"You've got a lawyer running against a family physician -- he's playing on my court, " he said.
For a monthly retainer fee, a patient can have access to their family physician at any time.
In 32 years of being a family physician I have had this privilege abused less than 5 times.
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"The family has very strong positions about this family physician's report that was done the next day, " Crump said.
We made an appointment with our family physician for his age 50 physical and a referral for a screening colonoscopy.
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One of his first grabs was Sherally Jamani, a family physician near Hamilton whose office was next to that of Lee-Chin's dentist.
Michael Pramenko is a family physician and a local medical leader there.
As my late father, a family physician, always warned, all in moderation.
He was thirty-one years old at the time, a skinny, thick-bearded, soft-spoken family physician who had grown up in a bedroom suburb of Philadelphia.
Family physician Richard Roberts has been practicing in tiny Belleville, Wis.
But who is to claim an impersonal panel of scientists can do a more rational job of decision making than the patient, the family, and the family physician?
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She is a practicing family physician in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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"If anything sounds too good, it's probably too good, " says Bernd Wollschlaeger, a family physician and head of educational programs at the American Nutraceuticals Association, a group funded in part by industry.
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Jeffery Belden, a family physician and associate professor at the University of Missouri medical school who went through its communication training last year, says that after 25 years in practice, he was skeptical at first.
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The cube-shaped, two-story building is so airtight that Mr. Konkol, a 55-year-old family physician who bikes 16 miles every day to his practice, knows it is windy outside only from seeing trees moving through the window.
That's what a breast-feeding doctor -- an OB, pediatrician or family physician with a subspecialty in breast-feeding medicine -- would have done in Kelly's case: a complete physical and medical history (yes, in fact, it is relevant if your mother couldn't make milk) on mom and baby to see if any physical or anatomical factors were affecting supply.
Dr. HEATHER LUCAS-ROSS (Family Practice Physician, Miner's Family Health Center): We don't have the funds right now to hire a new provider.
One health document is a living will, which in essence is a set of instructions to your family members and physician suggesting how you want health care to be implemented.
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Hall said there is no history of any kind of cancer in her family, but her physician has been persistent.
Her pressure ulcers were treated for two months by unlicensed staff before anyone told the physician or the family.
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We've previously shown that 11.6% of family members felt pressured by a physician to put a feeding tube in a dying patient with advanced dementia and about 10% reported that no one discussed that decision with them.
Larier is a physician who has traveled with Family Health Ministries on week-long visits to Haiti to provide the needy with healthcare.
The family says that they couldn't get a physician to examine Malyia and that the five-hour wait in the emergency room nearly killed her.
Dr. Jon Drezner, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Washington and team physician for pro football's Seattle Seahawks, said blunt trauma to a child's chest can send the heart into an abnormal rhythm.
The match allows organized medicine to continue to live in a world where a physician gets told where to go, his family be damned.
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Mr. STEPHEN STARR (Physician's Assitant, Miner's Family Health Center): I think it's becoming progressively more stressful wondering, are we going to have a facility and clinic open in a month from now.
Jamila has spent the better part of the last year in New York, away from her family, working at a Brooklyn hospital as a house physician -- a low-paying and demanding position open to doctors in her situation -- in hopes it would help her land a residency this spring.
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