Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The authors urged readers to make the elimination of nuclear weapons an urgent public health priority, reiterating a 2023 editorial on similar themes : Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. The world is woefully unprepared for the health consequences of the use of a single nuclear device, much less a nuclear war.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

For more great reads, feel free to browse my lists from 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , and 2015-2020. The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics , by Barron Lerner 4. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town , by Brian Alexander 5. Hope this list helps with your holiday shopping! ** 1.

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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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