A great Family Medicine doc is worth their weight in gold! I love mine, and each specialist who he has referred me to always remarked about how focused but thorough his initial workup was. He's really kind, and embraces a collaborative approach. One of the other docs in the practice is much more paternalistic, which is surprising since they're the same age. I saw the other one once for a sick visit and 5 minutes into the visit I wanted to walk out. If I didn't have my positive, respectfulexperiences with my doctor I probably would leave that practice. I told my doctor he needs to train and hire a few who have his approach because when he retires I'll cry trying to find one like him!

Coming back to those two bundle of happiness probably melt away all your exhaustion from work i guess!!!

I'm about to go to school to become a Family Medicine Physician and this helped out SO MUCHHHHHH omg this vid was perfect.You sound like such a sweet person omgggg!!!! Now I have a better understanding of what I wanna do lol.

These boys are soooooo precious!!! Omg. The icecream part “melted” my heart

I love the medicine related content!

My favorite specialty!

I LOVED THIS VIDEO! THANKS!

London looks exactly like how Wyatt did at that age! Adorable boys 🥰

I love these videos about family medicine ❤️. Please share some tips on how to be prepared before enter in family medicine residency. Greetings from Brazil :)

I don't think PCPs will ever be looked down upon. People need referrals to go to specialists that PCPs give. Also, people can't take care of the "medical" stuff that PCPs do. Specially Healthcare maintenance.

I’m seriously considering family medicine also. Here in the Philippines, Family Medicine is almost rising, but, there could still be discriminations as to some other people with how they perceive family medicine. But thanks to this video, i think im still gonna wanna include family medicine in my choices ❤

Family Medicine is the specialty I'd choose. That or Internal Medicine.

Great vids! ❤️ Thank you

So cute ❤️❤️

your cons list is the same here in South Africa, WELL specialists here get paid the same generally but family medicine is generally looked down upon, i get asked so many times why family medicine. family medicine is fulfilling and its very important, its sad that primary health care(preventative) is not taken as seriously as other specialists

Wise words Jenny prevention is the key, however healthy people are cheap vs sick people who are a big pharma money maker. Thank you for being an ethical doctor

Hey Jenny, can you make a video about how you came to learn all those fantastic skills? I hope to be like the PCP you described yourself to be - doing lots of procedures! Making other specialist's lives easier too, not just the patients :) Or maybe just reply in the comments; is it about 'putting yourself out there'? Like asking to do a lot of stuff on rotations, etc...

The biggest threat for family medicine is from mid levels encroachment

After family medicine can you do palliative care and work part time? Is palliative care very intense in terms of schedule/on calls.. thanks

3:11 YES! LMFAO

Did you do fellowship in preventive medicine?

Miriam laugesen has a great body of work on why specialists get paid so much more than primary care, it's pretty fascinating and by that I mean infuriating

your kids are cute

Do you get compensated more than the base salary when you do procedures?

working day time hours for 2.5 days and earning 120k is quite good! def only physicians can achieve this. and probably only FM to achieve this flexibility in hours.

For residency of Family Medicine, how difficult is it? How many hours per week does a typical FM resident work? Also, do FM residents have to be on call? I'm a premed, and I'm just wondering. Thank you!

How do you get all that procedural training? How do you find a job that is mainly for procedures?

Do you think Family medicine is harder than specializing in a certain field because you have to know more of everything?

120K for 2.5days a week. I feel like that is really good!

Pros and cons of primary care (mainly referring to family medicine or internal medicine as a PCP or perhaps general pediatrics): Pros -Variety of patients -Variety of pathology -Outpatient procedures (if you like procedures but PCPs don’t need to do procedures if they don’t want to) -Ability to tailor your practice however you like in terms of work hours, patients you see, procedures, etc. (e.g. it’s not like anesthesia where you are in a symbiotic relationship with surgeons so you can’t always necessarily leave when you want to or take on the cases you want to or work without supervising CRNAs if your group requires it, etc.) -Continuity of care (though for some this could be a con if you prefer limited interactions with patients like say in emergency medicine) -True backbone of any health care system -True generalist (con if you like focusing deeply on one organ or system) -Respect (could be a pro or con depending on how you look at it, some specialists tend to denigrate PCPs especially those in academia, and academic physicians are what tends to influences most med students, hence no or little love from med students for primary care, at least until they get out into the real world and see how well respected a good PCP is among other specialists and especially among their own patients) -Jobs available virtually anywhere and ever in the US and in fact globally because many if not most other nations would accept a U.S. trained family physician aka GP in British parlance, you can work literally anywhere in the world, far more so than many other specialties -Tremendous flexibility, outpatient, inpatient (hospitalist at least a little bit outside major cities where they tend to prefer IM as hospitalists), telehealth, urgent care, sports medicine, rural medicine, emergency medicine (though only outside of major metros where they only hire EM), nursing homes/LTAC, etc. Cons -Poorly compensated in comparison to most other specialties (though in general a full time PCP - which is usually considered 4.5 days, Mon-Fri, no nights, no weekends, no holidays, limited calls and almost always calls on phone from home don’t have to go in - will make $200k-$300k per year (depending on a number of factors of course like location, payor mix of your patients e.g. Medicare to private insurance ratios, etc.) -Paperwork (e.g prior authorizations)

Where did you go for residency?

Hey my name is Dorothy and it's been about 3 years since I've wanted to practice family medicine sense I was 9 I'm 12 now I'm going into 8th grade this August and after 10 grade my 2nd year of high school I wanna leave and head off to collage ill be 16 by then and be a family medicine phasiction

Mam after MBBS is there is MS as option for becoming Family Medicine Doctor or there is only MD as option for becoming Family Medicine Doctor ? Please reply me

I’m literally so confused on how to job shadow. I understand physicians are busy but why do they just blow me off?

I don't know if anyone has told you this before, but you like like Meghan Markle!

Mommy stole the best part