Primary Care
Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and instructor of emergency medicine, talked to WTOP-FM about teaching patients how to better advocate for their health and her book, recently released in paperback, “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary…
Book by GW physician Leana Wen teaches patients how to advocate for their health.
Author Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and assistant professor of emergency medicine, teaches patients how to better advocate for their health in her book, “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Testing.”
In response to the increasing need to support primary care clinicians who care for prostate cancer survivors, the American Cancer Society, with support from the GW Cancer Institute and a panel of experts, has published the ACS Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines.
Brian Jacobs, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was featured in Healthcare IT News for an article on how to solve the problem of too many notes on a patient and making sure the health care team gets all the information they need.
Richard Cytowic, M.D., associate clinical professor of neurology, wrote an essay for Washingtonian magazine on the importance of training physicians on how to approach death with their patients.
Atul Grover, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine, was interviewed by WRVO Public Media (NPR - Oswego, NY) on the causes of the nation's doctor shortage.
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, was quoted in an article in The New York Times on a shortage of primary care doctors in the United States.
Fitzhugh Mullan, Ph.D., M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by Medpage Today about proposed solutions to the shortage of primary care physicians.
Minnesota Public Radio - How a Shortage of Doctors Here Can Hurt Health Care in the Developing World
Fitzhugh Mullan, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio about the U.S. using foreign-trained physicians to help fill the growing shortage of doctors in the nation.