Family Practice News

While the groups had been at loggerheads for years on the issue of the prescribing agreement requirement for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to prescribe nonscheduled drugs, a compromise has now been reached.

Wells, a young doctor in training at Springfield's Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, wanted to add obstetrics to the skills she could offer her future patients.

The new medical group is at the former Acadia Medical Group location on 900 Ryland Street in Reno.

The United States currently faces a critical shortage of primary care physicians, and many experts predict the shortage will grow worse in coming years.

State lawmakers are considering expanding a student loan repayment program in an effort to keep more primary care doctors and dentists in Michigan.

When a patient dies unexpectedly in a hospital setting, communication among next of kin, medical examiners, hospital staff members and other clinicians often is challenging.

Dr. Joseph Welty talks during an interview in his office at KSB Hospital's Town Square Centre Clinic.

In Canada, there are about 100,000 abortions a year, most of them performed surgically in clinics or hospitals.

But the Burnaby Division of Family Practice, a group of about 160 family doctors practicing in the city, is looking to ease some of that stress by surveying residents and people who study or work in the city about how they use the health care system and whether it's meeting their needs.

Ontario is making progress on its commitment to ensure every Ontarian has an electronic health record by expanding their use into 90 community-based health care clinics, giving 500,000 patients access to an electronic health record.

China's southern Guangdong Province, one of the richest regions in the country, will initiate a family doctor service starting next year on a trial basis, local health authorities said.

The number of patients who access health care online will grow "exponentially" in coming years in line with increases in internet shopping and banking, a leading medic has said.

So reads the opening statement of a Sept. 24 notice received by a Florida woman who for many years had her health care needs attended to by Jack Matheny, M.D., a solo family physician in Palatka, Fla.

Maria Franco explains health insurance to Violet Lucas-Barajas, 28 years old, at an event to inform people about the Affordable Care Act and donate turkeys to 5,000 needy families, in Los Angeles on Nov. 25, 2013.

Canadian women lack access to the best known option for abortion, two reproductive medicine experts argued in a commentary published Monday by the Canadian Medical Association.

What if you could save money on medical costs without sacrificing care? And what if it were doctors who were leading the charge in that effort? Choosing Wisely is part of a multiyear effort of the ABIM Foundation to help physicians be "better stewards of finite health care resources."

Jo-Anne Miller of Glenholme was disappointed to learn that a new doctor recruited to Truro area is not immediately going to be accepting new patients who currently do not have a doctor but rather will be mentoring with a physician in an existing practice.

Patient access to doctors is approaching a perfect storm of decreased physician supply, more demand for medical care-especially after Obamacare kicks in-and doctors increasingly refusing to see low-paying Medicare or Medicaid patients.

When looking for a gastroenterologist in Beverly Hills to perform a colonoscopy , the colon cancer screening exam, one can't help but notice there are many options in the city.

The top walk-in clinics in Toronto offer a higher quality of service than the countless number of little doctor's offices that are tucked away into plazas and shopping malls.