Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

Doctors have been at the forefront of campaigns against nuclear weapons since 1961, when Physicians for Social Responsibility was founded. A current exhibit at Harvard University’s Countway Library highlights the social activism of former medical school and public health faculty. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings. What is primary care?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles. For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000. since last week.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

Psychology Today maintains a national directory of therapists with training in CBT for gambling disorder. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. Effective treatments include referral to self-help groups such as Gamblers Anonymous , group or individual cognitive behavioral therapy , motivational interviewing, and naltrexone.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Although the results of these trials can be interpreted as favoring early TAVI in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, more studies are needed to ensure that the “paradigm shift” toward early intervention is based on good evidence rather than surgical preference. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. A quarter of a century later, the United States remains the only country besides New Zealand where DTCA for prescription drugs is completely legal. But it is not free.

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