Evergreen Family Medicine

I want to share this article with our Evergreen Team members. It eloquently describes an approach Evergreen Family Medicine tries to avoid when “the form survives, but the function erodes.” We encourage a thorough review of data and processes, but we also pay attention to patterns we observe and intangible factors that impact patient care. When our experience, official modeling,...

If you want to know what a society truly worships, don’t look at its monuments. Don’t bother with its mission statements. Don’t visit its churches. Look at its forbidden words. Every civilization in history has had verbal landmines that trigger disgust, fear, or punishment. The content of those taboos is never arbitrary. It is these forbidden words that reveal what a culture con...

Faith begins at the dinner table, not the pew. The mashed potatoes of faith. According to a new Harvard study of more than 16,000 churchgoing adults, a person’s connection to faith starts at home, not the church. Your intuition is now evidence-based. A best practice. In 2024, the Pew Research Center reported that 28% of U.S. adults were religiously unaffiliated. Checkers of ...