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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery. A 2019 AFP editorial provided more guidance for estimating and having conversations about life expectancy with older patients. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. in 2000 to 59.8%

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

On the surface, this rule aligns with the American Academy of Family Physicians’ policy that information provided in DTCA "should be accurate, balanced, objective, and complete, not false or misleading, and should not promote unhealthy or unsafe practices." Kennedy, Jr.’s s previously stated intention to ban DTCA from television.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

to a massive resurgence in 2019, presaged by smaller blips in the prior years? Oh, and the CDC's National Immunization Survey has been canceled by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, even if the Epidemic Intelligence Service seems to have received a temporary reprieve.)