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

Common Sense Family Doctor

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) maintains that clinical privileges should be based on documented training and experience rather than the physician’s specialty. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home.