StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available. Please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences. Broken bones. A heart attack. Respiratory distress. A cardiac arrest.

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ER Emergency Room Family Doctor Illness 100

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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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. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. Why do I care?

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