Doing well and aiming to do better

Advance care planning allows patients to assert their values and priorities for care throughout their disease course and throughout their lifespan, so that when unex-

The problem is that some medi- cal students who match to family medicine have no intention of practising primary care.. Family medicine is pitched to medical students with some of

Fortunately, FMRs highlight potential changes such as increasing access to family medicine mentors who practise palliative care, teaching pragmatic skills on how to

I have also been challenged on more than one occasion with the following question: Can family physicians continue to provide care to patients in hospital while practising in

As asserted by the Future of Family Medicine Leadership Committee, a US-based entity created to develop a strategy to transform and renew family medi- cine as a discipline,

• In patients with CHADS 2 (conges- tive heart failure, hypertension, age ≥ 75, diabetes mellitus, and stroke or transient ischemic attack) scores of 0 and 1, the rates of

Mainstream physicians generally believe that conven- tional medicine is scientific and that alternative med- icine is unscientific 1 ; alternative practitioners, on the other

The ministry of health and social services should either recognize continuity of care as a specific medical activity or abolish specific medical activities