Stoeckle Center Seminars - 2005

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May 27
2005
  The Use of Email and the Internet in Primary Care: Who Benefits?
David Judge, MD
Bulfinch Medical Group, MGH
Anonymous Patients
June 24
2005
  Respecting Choices: Improving the Completion of Advance Directives in Primary Care
Cornelia Cremens, MD
MGH Senior Health Associates
Alexander Cist, MD
Pulmonary Associates, MGH
Sept 30
2005
  Shared Decision Making in Action: News from the IMA Pilot
Bill Kormos, MD
Internal Medicine Associates, MGH
The Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, MGH
Elizabeth Kaplan, MPH
The Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, MGH
Nov 18
2005
  Reflections on the Practice of Primary Care
John H. Wasson, MD
Director, Center for the Aging, Dartmouth
Research Director, Dartmouth-Northern New England Primary Care Research Network.
The Herman O. West Professor of Geriatrics in Community and Family Medicine and Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Dec 16
2005
  Communication Strategies for Adolescents
Elizabeth Woods, MD, MPH
Associate Chief, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Associate Professor, Children's Hospital Boston

Today, primary care practitioners are providing more complex care in an increasingly busy environment. This severely limits their time and opportunity to educate patients about their health and chronic illnesses, as well as discuss other issues like prevention and wellness measures - a situation that is frustrating to both practitioners and patients alike.