A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

I re-blogged this post on my original, much older WordPress blog and it got 14 comments, many more than usual. Medicare patients on a fixed income need to use their insurance if they still want to eat and heat their homes. It was a call to reimagine, reinvent and reinvigorate primary care. Same thing for most people on Medicaid.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

IBD is also increasingly being diagnosed in racial and ethnic minorities, children, and older adults. Now, in 2025, it’s both validating and heartbreaking to see the rise in IBD diagnoses in Peru. city, a rural town without an IBD specialist, or a country around the world that is just beginning to recognize and diagnose IBD.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

.; Any schedule II drug to a patient paying in cash, cash equivalents, or otherwise out-of-pocket, except where the pharmacy has documented that the customer is not covered by any insurance plan or other third-party payor for prescription services; IR opioids for more than 90 days unless the pharmacy first obtains a written treatment plan from the (..)

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. Non invasive H. pylori in the kid.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much. With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. And he was so thankful that he kind of ended up in the hepatic coma and got diagnosed with liver cancer because it was his chance to be linked to treatment for addiction, which is so extreme.

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