December 2017 Newsletter
It will soon be the darkest day of the year. Yet it is also the season to give thanks. One of my patients has lost much in his life, but not his optimism. Last week he noted that as each day goes by this winter we are one day closer to spring. Optimism for the future. I don’t think we are in dark days, but the health care system is in great flux. Yet CHCW keeps looking toward the future. Don’t we look different in our 25th year. When I became program director with over a decade of residency teaching experience nearly a decade and a half...
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Each year I give an annual update to our medical staff. I cover some of the highlights of our past year, and a preview of changes for next year. Here is a synopsis of what I’ll present. Our residency program is going strong, with full accreditation from the ACGME with Osteopathic Recognition. At this point in time we have trained and graduated 148 physicians. One core areas of service include our inpatient family medicine service, which provides equal coverage to Regional and Memorial, as well as caring for our patient at KVH in...
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Since September we’ve added Carlin Miller, DO; Caitlin Hill, MD; and Midhuna Papazian, MD. Dr. Miller, one of our graduates, is working as a modern day generalist. He provides services for Senior Care one day a week, and the remainder of his time he works in the clinic, teaching residents, and delivering obstetrical and medical care in the hospital. He started in early September. Dr.’s Hill and Papazian have recently finished high risk obstetrical fellowships and are C/S trained. They’ll join Dr. Moran in providing that service for our...
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