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

The Health Policy Exchange

According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019. Finally, it seems awkward and unrealistic for a family doctor to tell a specialist that his or her practice style is too aggressive, even if there's good data to back it up.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

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. in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several years ago, during the first Trump administration, I excoriated the then-nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services , orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, for his poor understanding of cancer screening. s views on cancer screening. Few HHS Secretaries have actually been medical doctors; Dr. During the pandemic, RFK Jr.