Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

A 2024 editorial in Science , noting rising tensions between the United States and Russia, China, and North Korea, observed that “the risk of nuclear war has not been so high since the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Both countries are spending enormous amounts to modernize their existing arsenals.

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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.

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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 per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In November 2024, a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule went into effect requiring television and radio advertisements for drugs to communicate risk and contraindications in a “clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner.”

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