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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

" 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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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

Common Sense Family Doctor

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Travel to the doctor’s office. Although not originally applied to health care processes, sludge audits can improve the efficiency of health systems and patients’ experiences. Wait times. The list goes on.

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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. The US Healthcare System vs…….South

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

A 2020 meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled trials (summarized in a POEM in American Family Physician ) concluded that low-dose CT screening prevents one lung cancer death for every 250 people screened.