Comments on: Family Medicine: Challenges for the Solo Physician

By: jim

jim — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:36:58 +0000

Also, like when in high school, The ACT, the only section, you had to know to do good was the math part. The other sections you couldn’t really study a lot for.
same way, what courses should i put a lot of emphasis in so that i can do excellent on the MCAT?
what courses do i have to have before taking it? hope someone can help.

By: Marilyn Herand

Marilyn Herand — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:54:03 +0000

A very interesting article. I’ve been lucky to have had the same family practitioner since 1989. This article helps me to understand her frustrations. I have adjusted to the fact that I will likely be referred for anything beyond the basic illnesses and I’ve appreciated the doctors to whom she has referred me. In the few times that this has occurred, she has sent me to specialists with whom I can easily relate and whose style seems to match mine.

By: Dr. Josephina

Dr. Josephina — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:00:10 +0000

A big part of the scope of a future’s FPs practice is location, location, location, some FPs still work in ICUs and do alot of procedures i.e. obstetrics because the culture of that part of the country allows it, whereas other FPs basically can not do ICU work or work as a hospitalist at all in their region of the country, I think that FPs practicing in poor rural areas are allowed to do more by necessity, likewise an FP in Boston can’t work as a hospitalist or work in an ICU, the culture there is that this is what specialists in internal medicine, i.e. internists are for. Basically, the level of training in internal medicine, which is becoming more advanced, is ver well covered in an IM residency, whereas in an FP residency it is very diluted because you see kids, ob/gyn, and alot of outpatient, an Internist I was working with said that basically FPs shouldn’t do ICU/hospitalist work as they really aren’t trained as well an IM docs to do it.