Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered 101

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids. Eric: Well, let me ask you this.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73