StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses. Within minutes, all of these critical patients had been treated with efficient, appropriate life-saving care. To pain control issues.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects. A recent analysis of the U.S. in 2000 to 59.8%

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. We continued our efforts to stabilize this patient as we awaited cardiology's arrival.

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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

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. 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.

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