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

Common Sense Family Doctor

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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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

Kaiser Permanente’s physician-led, integrated care model focuses on prevention, screening, treatment, and research to drive continuous improvement in care quality standards that have gained national recognition. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

The study also used mental health screening instruments, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) for depression, and the General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2) for anxiety, to better understand this population.  In 2003, he was the co-winner of the AAPOR Innovator’s award for helping to establish the Standard’s Definitions Manual.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

They communicated by looking at a letter screen and it would track his eye movements. So no actual frank hallucinations, but some people do describe their visual changes. Like we had somebody with ALS who responded extremely well, who had a. And it was funny because, of course, he needed to be able to look at the letters.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several years ago, during the first Trump administration, I excoriated the then-nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services , orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, for his poor understanding of cancer screening. s views on cancer screening. President-elect Trump has stated that he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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

GeriPal

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 we wrote that in response to the May 11th deadline that was given to the Ryan Haight Act going back into effect after it was temporarily paused or restricted since the beginning of the pandemic. Go ahead Eric.