Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A patient with a history of headaches is brought by ambulance to the emergency department for the abrupt onset of weakness and decreased sensation in their left arm and leg. A code stroke is called. Are these symptoms of an acute stroke or a stroke mimic , such as a hemiplegic migraine ?

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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. hours) allocated to preventive care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. In early 2025, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

In a research paper in the January/February 2025 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine , Dr. Erin Hirsch and colleagues rated lung cancer screening trials and the nonrandomized Veterans Health Administration Demonstration Project with an established tool that evaluated each study through a primary care lens.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

Match Day on March 21, 2025 unfolded similarly to the National Resident Matching Program in previous years. Most years, two or three times as many students matched into Anesthesiology or Orthopedic Surgery. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% growth in the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors!

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