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

Common Sense Family Doctor

From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3% to 6.7% , and less than 2% of board-certified family physicians report performing colonoscopy in their practices. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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4 Ways to Combat Dental Assistant Job Dissatisfaction that You Can Implement Today

CDOCS

<p>According to the Dental Assisting National Board, dental assistant job satisfaction has declined every year since 2016, and currently only 50% feel valued by their employer. Within the last year, feeling under appreciated is now the second highest reason dental assistants are leaving the dental field.</p>

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So we had myself and other board certified surgeons from different specialties go through this very large list and then come up with whether or not we thought it was really causally related to mortality generally. And that really created an opportunity to study this. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.