Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours) allocated to preventive care. hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

They quantified time, paperwork, communication, technology (number of mouse clicks to order a CRC screening test), other administrative tasks, and low-value CRC screenings. Finally, neither patients nor primary care clinicians could easily access the results of colonoscopies or stool-based tests.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.

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