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. and 6.1%, respectively).

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The case manager. The family doctor was called. This essay is an updated version first posted in 2010 and it rings just as true today as it did then. The cardiologist, standing at the patient's open side, dictating the next course of medications while I was away. My resident physician. The patient's wife. And the patient.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. growth in the U.S.

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