StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. Next, an asymptomatic patient with elevated blood pressure for three years, non-compliant with her medications for financial reasons (yes--I noticed the pack of cigarettes hanging from her purse), was sent to us from her family doctor to be cured on the spot. "Go Unprotected.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called. I dictated my note.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines. This is research and evidence that no one, healthy or ill, can afford to lose.

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