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23 hrs ago | The Mirror

Five docs accepting patients

Five new doctors have arrived in Barrie. One of the newly recruited doctors, Dr.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Wed Jul 08, 2009

HealthDay

Electronic System Helps Track Diabetes Care

A personalized electronic health tracking system can improve diabetes patients' care and clinical outcomes, Canadian researchers say.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Canada,

Oxford Review

Forming new partnerships

Woodstock needs doctors. We are not alone. Communities across Ontario are also in need.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

Physics Blog

Electronic tracking system can help diabetes patient care

An electronic system with personalized patient information shared by diabetes patients and their primary care providers improved diabetes care and clinical outcomes, found a new study in CMAJ .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Physics, Science

Mon Jul 06, 2009

KCFW

Doctors Leaving Helena

Eight internists and family doctors have left their private practices in Helena in the past seven months - and that means a 25-percent drop the city's primary-care physician work force.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Internal Medicine, Montana

Denton Record-Chronicle

Nation faces shortage of primary-care doctors

Even if President Barack Obama is successful in revamping the health care system to cover the nation's 46 million uninsured, Texas and the rest of the nation still face a shortage of primary-care doctors to treat them.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Hawkins, TX, Healthcare Law, Law

Vancouver Sun

Many B.C. doctors don't have their own family physician

The latest surveys and polls show that about 90 per cent of B.C. residents have a family doctor, while the same is true for only 78 per cent of B.C. doctors.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

DB's Medical Rants

Could primary care actually win?

Primary Care Wins, Imaging Loses, Under New CMS Proposal - ht to Vinny Arora who retweeted AbbieCitron - Twitter does increase the speed at which I learn about important articles.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Mississauga

Trillium trains family doctors for the future

Meet the Docs. Trillium Health Centre and Summerville Family Medicine Teaching Unit launched an initiative yesterday that will provide thousands of Mississauga residents with access to a family doctor.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Canada, Nursing, Psychiatry

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Victoria Star

Recruitment efforts go high tech

The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce is stepping up its efforts to recruit doctors to the city by taking a high-tech slant.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Medical News Today

Family Doctors Condemn Cuts To Funding, Northern Ireland

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 1:00 PDT Commenting on the publication of the results of a national patient access survey today local general practitioners expressed anger that a survey which shows how well general practice is delivering care to patients has resulted in the expected loss of up to A 2 ...

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Sequoyah County Times

Doctor's new office will open July 6

Dr. Terry Hoyt of Van Buren, Ark., has joined the team at Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw, and his office in Sallisaw will open July 7. New patients may start making appointments on Monday by calling 790-3004. Linda Copeland - TIMES Dr.

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Related Topix: Van Buren, AR, State University, AR, Medicine

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Chicago Tribune

Low pay from Medicaid keeps doctors away from primary care

Look no further than the Illinois Medicaid program to understand why more physicians are not being lured into the primary-care profession.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Medicine, Medicare, Family, Elderly, Chicago Metro, Gibson City, IL

Ottawa Sun

H1N1 tests not getting done

Dr. Eoghan O'Shea says the regional virology lab hasn't tested samples from two patients he thinks might have swine flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine

DB's Medical Rants

Patients leaving primary care physicians who eschew the hospital

Had a great time talking to family physicians at the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians.

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The Victoria Star

ER closure prompts calls for after-hours clinic

Dawn Beals says the closure of the Oromocto Public Hospital's emergency room is having an impact on the health of many community residents.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Windsock

Naval Hospital residents graduate

Friday morning was the end of three "very busy" years for Lt. Ryan Arnold. Arnold was one of six family physicians and six interns who graduated at Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital's Camp Lejeune Family Medicine Residency Graduation Ceremony.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Toronto Sun

Adult obesity on the rise in Canada

Obesity rates are going up, diabetes is increasing and blood pressure problems are worsening among Canadian adults.

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ITWorld Canada

Five reasons your family doctor isna t using EMR

Poll Twitter Five reasons your family doctor isna t using EMR By: Jennifer Kavur - Computer World Canada A An EMR vendor, group physician and OntarioMD weigh in on the roadblocks to EMR adoption in Ontario for family physicians.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Otago Daily Times

Only South free of swine flu

Otago and Southland remain the only regions of New Zealand which have no confirmed cases of swine flu.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Medicine, Influenza,

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