Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

I've spent the past week as the attending physician on my residency program's adult inpatient service. Practices developed novel workflows to support TCM and to ensure that it is financially sustainable, as reviewed in a 2023 article in FPM.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. The annual price of risankizumab is $288,000, so this is still a huge bargain for the company given the potential returns. If it did, why give it for free? All of us.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care. in 2023-24.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

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