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.

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Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Samir: For me, it really came out of an interest in improving the care of patients who undergo surgery. So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. We’re available, palliative care.

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: Yeah.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73