Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Don Berwick's dire warning about the existential threat of greed on the failing American health care system seems to be coming true, to the extent that the brazen assassination of an insurance company executive in midtown Manhattan elicited far more outrage about delayed or denied care than sympathy for his family's loss.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

However, as stated plainly in a recent editorial published in more than 120 medical journals worldwide , “This does not mean humanity is any safer.” After peaking at more than 70,000 in 1986, the absolute number of weapons gradually declined from the implementation of various arms control treaties to 12,331 today.

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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 Scores that indicate MIDAS grades III and IV should prompt clinicians to consider targeted migraine medications rather than simple analgesics.

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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. Hope this list helps with your holiday shopping! ** 1. Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks , by Caitlin Rivers 2.

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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? But it is not free.

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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. in 2023-24. A research letter in JAMA Network Open reported that in 2015 and 2020, graduates of U.S. and 3.6%, respectively, in 2008-09 to 14.3%

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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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