Sentences with phrase «practicing family physician»

«As a practicing family physician, I see the signs of the childhood obesity epidemic directly in my exam room every day,» said Robert Rowley, MD, Practice Fusion's chief medical officer, adding that electronic medical records and other new technologies can be helpful in eliminating childhood obesity.

During the new edit of «The Notion of Family» at Gavin Brown's enterprise in Harlem, we held programming where I was in conversation with the doctor who saved my mother's life, Dr. Esa Davis, Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh and a board - certified practicing family physician with a focus in women's health, who particularly holds workshops once a year to help medical students learn how to engage with patients suffering from poverty without prejudice or bias.

A practicing family physician, Dr. Hyman is an eight - time # 1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator and advocate in functional medicine.

Mark Hyman, MD, is a practicing family physician who believes that we all deserve a life of vitality — and that we have the potential to create it for ourselves.

Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, a ten - time # 1 New York Timesbestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field.

My friend and colleague, Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, a nine - time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in our field.

Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, the Medical Director at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Functional Medicine, and a multi-time # 1 New York Times Bestselling author.

Mark Hyman, M.D., is a practicing family physician, a ten - time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field.

Mark is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader in his field.

He is a practicing family physician, a ten - time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field.

«This is a bad flu season,» said Dr. Robert Raspa, a practicing family physician in Jacksonville, Fla. «There will be times when you have three or four people in the office at the same time who test positive for flu,» he explained.

Currently, 20 states plus the District of Columbia and the United States Territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands provide for the licensure or registration of Naturopathic Doctors as general practice family physicians.

Not exact matches

It is the creation of the «new» physician specialty of «family practice».

On the movie's IndieGoGo site, he says he is «a family practice physician, the father of ten home - educated children, a gun enthusiast and concealed carrier, and is the author of ten novels and two screenplays.»

Family physicians often have an additional 3 years of training beyond medical school with some family practice doctors choosing to specialize in obsteFamily physicians often have an additional 3 years of training beyond medical school with some family practice doctors choosing to specialize in obstefamily practice doctors choosing to specialize in obstetrics.

The La Leche League's 57 Years of Helping New Mothers «A group of seven mothers got together at the behest of a family physician, Gregory White, to share their «expertise» on breastfeeding with other new mothers in his practice.

Shaun Grammer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Medicine and Rehabilitation - Physician Assistant at Indiana State University working in family practice and pediatrics and as a Physician Assistant.

OB / GYNs are considered specialists and it is important for women to have an internal medicine / family practice physician to manage existing and / or developing medical conditions, and ensure you are up to date with immunizations and any other screening tests (e.g., screening colonoscopies are recommended at age 50 in the low risk population).

Diane Stafford - Founder and Editor - in - Chief, Health & Fitness magazine, and Jennifer Shoquist, M.D. - A Family Practice Physician wrote in their book, Potty Training for Dummies, that you should dress your child in loose fitting, easily pulled up or down items.

«While the digital ear thermometer is acceptable for newborns, the most accurate reading will come from a rectal thermometer,» states Thomas Whalen, a Family Practice physician in Bentleyville, PA..

Licensed Midwives in Washington state are independent health care providers, serving as part of the larger healthcare community that also includes obstetricians, family practice physicians, naturopathic doctors, and other allied health care providers.

Seven family practice physicians and one emergency room physician in Santa Fe, New Mexico struggle with their consciences as they examine the ethical and human rights issues of infant circumcision.

Whether you go with a Family Practice Physician or a Pediatrician make sure you choose a provider who's board certified, which means that he or she has passed certain exams and completed on going education.

If you are a lactation professional who works to correct the «damage» done by «just one bottle,» this book will provide you the evidence you need to discuss this issue with mothers, families, physicians, and hospital staff to change supplementation practices in your area.

We excluded women who required oxytocin for induction of labour after the 2:1 matching with our study group, because we learned during the study that the policy with respect to the use of oxytocin for induction of labour was outside the scope of practice for midwives and family physicians in some hospitals.

When discussing back - up plans, for example, many consumers assume this means Nurse Midwives require supervision because they lack sufficient skills to provide full - scope care, but just as a family practice physician collaborates with the obstetrician for surgical services, so does the Nurse Midwife.

A midwife's scope of practice is similar to a family physician but specialized in maternity and newborn care.

This may include but is not limited to: psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, school psychologists, pediatricians, family practice physicians, and speech and language pathologists.

We work closely with hospitals, pediatric, geriatric, family practice physicians and other professionals to exchange ideas and discuss the most recent safety issues.

Doctor Gene Heslin, a family practice physician, and Mark McKinney from the Healthcare Information Exchange of New York, joined us to talk about this.

The researchers then calculated how many chose to become family medicine physicians, and tracked the locations of their first practices.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

While there were no significant differences in the responses of residents based on how far along they were in their training, the researchers were surprised to discover some significant differences among supervising physicians, with senior attendings being more likely than junior attendings — who could be fellows or attendings in practice less than five years — to prefer immediate notification for situations including patient falls, new or worsening pain, an angry parent or family member, or the need for restraints.

Of the physicians, 246 practiced internal medicine, 379 practiced family medicine and 223 practiced gynecology.

Determining components of care that remain integral to the practice of family medicine may be informed by assessing gaps between the intended scope of practice of residents and actual scope of practice of family physicians, according to background information in the article.

«When I talk to young women, I emphasize that their health as young adults is going to impact more than themselves,» says Tammy Chang, M.D., assistant professor in Michigan Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and a practicing physician at the Corner Health Center.

Graduating family medicine residents have indicated they intend to provide a broader scope of practice than that reported by current family physicians, including for prenatal care, inpatient care, nursing home care, home visits, and women's health procedures, according to a study in the December 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

Initial board certifiers reported intentions for scope of practice and recertifying family physicians reported actual provision of specific clinical activities.

«When you are a junior faculty [member] and you have a family and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylfamily and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of PennsylFamily Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean O'Leary, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics, and his colleagues surveyed more than 800 physicians across the country and found 21 percent of the responding pediatricians dismissed families from their practice when the families refused vaccines.

«It may be that in states that allow philosophical exemptions, physicians perceive vaccine refusal as more societally acceptable because of the exemption law and therefore are less likely to dismiss families from their practice,» they wrote.

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Now, as a practicing physician, she treats patients with the same respect and empathy she would show her own family members, like her grandmother.

12/11/2007» T is the Giving Season: WebMD Health Foundation Funds Fellowship in Underserved Health Care For UC San Diego Student - Run Free Clinic As a new physician, Michelle Johnson, M.D., could have joined any of several lucrative family practice clinics in California.

Competitors have been tasked with discovering the unknown genetic basis of the disorders faced by three pediatric patients and, in the process, create best practices for interpreting and presenting genomic sequence results to patients and their families and physicians in meaningful ways that can help guide healthcare decisions.

She is a board - certified Family Practice physician who has also studied Ayurveda and Acupuncture.

Dr. Jeffrey Egler, a family practice physician and Los Angeles Medical Director of Parsley Health is not necessarily surprised by the results of this study, saying that a definitive asthma diagnosis often depends upon follow - up tests, but in many cases these tests never get performed.

He founded Integrative Health, a practice of physicians in Arizona whose philosophy is to «Provide smart, safe, primarily natural and scientific solutions for the entire family to live in good health.»

Madiha M. Saeed, MD, ABIHM, is a board - certified integrative holistic family physician practicing in Illinois.

According to Dr. Egler, a family practice physician and Los Angeles medical director of Parsley Health, sex can stimulate the immune system.