Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3% to 6.7% , and less than 2% of board-certified family physicians report performing colonoscopy in their practices. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. Reach out today.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

There are a lot of things to comment on in this video, so I’m going to take a few of the examples of healthcare red tape that I identified with as a primary care physician and highlight them below. Now, I want to be clear that by writing this blog, I am not saying that health insurance companies are evil!

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Regularly talking with people you care about may help you avoid the need for antidepressants. Find a caring primary care doctor: As a direct primary care physician, I devote time to sit down with patients and learn about their lifestyles, hopes, desires, worries, and concerns. Reach out anytime.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

The term GP was used more frequently in the past and according to this study , historically signifies a physician who completed some residency training after medical school, but did not fully complete the residency training. There are no laws about how physicians label themselves in their practice though.

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