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01-11-2019 | Pediatrics | Editorial

Advocacy: Achieving Physician Competency

Authors: Jonathan E. Fried, BA, Scott A. Shipman, MD, MPH, Laura L. Sessums, JD, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 11/2019

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All clinicians confront patient needs they cannot meet within the confines of the clinical encounter. We discover that our patients are not filling prescriptions because the cost of their medications has skyrocketed. We discharge asthmatic children to homes filled with mold, and schizophrenic patients without secure housing to the street. In residency, we learn to care and advocate for individual patients, but when do we learn to advocate for solutions to systemic problems that negatively affect the health of our patients and the communities we serve? …

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Title: Advocacy: Achieving Physician Competency
Authors: Jonathan E. Fried, BA
Scott A. Shipman, MD, MPH
Laura L. Sessums, JD, MD
Publication date: 01-11-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Pediatrics
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 11/2019
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05278-y

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