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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

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

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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. So I might say, what can we apply the same things?

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified

Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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