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

These days, most adults need to wait several months for a new patient appointment with a family doctor, if they can get one at all. We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. But it's not enough to wait and hope that policymakers will figure this out on their own.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a family doctor, I hear my patients talk about their “medicine cabinet full of old medicines” all the time. Feel free to share this blog so that if your primary care doctor sends you a survey to take in the future, you will be able to report you are doing things safely and correctly! It’s ok to admit it.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics , by Barron Lerner 4. On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service , by Anthony Fauci 7. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town , by Brian Alexander 5. Perry Wilson 6.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000. In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In November 2024, a new U.S. On the surface, this rule aligns with the American Academy of Family Physicians’ policy that information provided in DTCA "should be accurate, balanced, objective, and complete, not false or misleading, and should not promote unhealthy or unsafe practices." If it did, why give it for free? All of us.

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