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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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

Noreta Family Medicine

A few weeks later, I received a letter in the mail from the patient’s insurance company saying that their records indicated that the patient was not taking one of the diabetes medicines in that class, and that they recommended that I prescribe one of those medicines. I felt like I was in an episode of The Twilight Zone!

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. So, I don’t think we should have these silos. What is it called? Cancer Pain, Non-Cancer Pain: A Distinction Without the Difference?

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