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

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

Family Physician

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified

Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT

Primary Care Digest

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

Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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