Family Medicine Doctors in Young Harris, GA Accepting Medicare

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Mrs. Paula Jean Boyle, MD
Family Medicine
Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments
Practice Location: 1155 Main St, Young Harris, GA 30582
Phone: 706-439-6873    Fax: 706-439-6874

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Key insight into the process of normal synapse development may lead to improved treatment of conditions such as drug addiction and epilepsy

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Viewpoints: Rethinking what health insurance should cover; Sen. Johnson suing over congressional health plan; Medicaid's unsung success

The proper role of health insurance should be to finance necessary and expensive medical services without the patient incurring devastating financial consequences. Over the last decade, however, Americans have come to expect their health insurance to subsidize the consumption of all medical care. ... This shift in expectation has meant that health insurance stands out as entirely different from all other types of insurance. Ask yourself: Would you use automobile insurance to buy gasoline? Would you use homeowner insurance to finance painting your house? This wrongheaded view has played an important role in contributing to rapidly rising health care costs (George P. Shultz, Scott W. Atlas and John F. Cogan, 1/5).

Open windows can be extremely dangerous for young children

The dog days of summer are here. But as we try to catch a cool breeze, that open window can become a dangerous hazard for children. In fact, emergency rooms treat more than 5,000 children each year for injuries related to falls from windows.

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Popular Specializations in Young Harris, GA:

Internal Medicine
Family Medicine


Family Medicine: Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.


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