The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. This potential is very important because such a breakthrough won’t come about in any other way.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. The patient was enrolled in a cost-sharing program that reduced her out-of-pocket expenses by 70%, allowing her to access the medication.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.) Outcome Measures: Process map that illuminates workflow of CRC screening in participating clinics. These include competing demands, complex and changing guidelines, and inadequate tracking systems.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. 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.” Wait times.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Describe demographics and outcomes of adults with cancer who received services at integrative medicine clinics. Results: The cohort consisted of 264 individuals with cancer of various stages. The mean age was 55 years and 72% had commercial insurance. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-site observational cohort study.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 15, 2025

For some, that involves providing high-quality care to individual patients. Whether you join us in a clinical or non-clinical role, you’ll get the opportunity to improve the health and well-being of people across Connecticut. For others, it involves the behind-the-scenes work that makes good care possible.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 18, 2021

According to DPC Frontier, a site owned by a DPC physician/lawyer who was a founder of the movement, there are now over 1500 clinics doing pure Direct Care across the nation. Clinics are often owned by solo doctors or, as in the case of Direct Doctors, by 2-3 physicians in a small group practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Individual items within the scaled score were also examined. Yet, graduating residents intend broad SOP. The average practicing SOP score was 16.0.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

Contact your insurance company: If you have health insurance, ask your insurance company for a list of endocrinologists in your city or county that accept your coverage. Clinic location and hours: If you have a chronic endocrine condition, you’ll likely see your endocrinologist regularly.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. As a concierge doctor, I provide an array of services that go beyond what most patients experience in a regular clinic setting. The answer lies in their approach to patient care.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Progress in this field promises to reorient care around individual patients’ needs by treating patients as equal-level partners. Some 3D printed drugs made strides some years ago by getting FDA approvals and undergoing clinical trials. One such trend is that of in silico clinical trials. It can screen more than 2.8

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Transparent walls allow the clinical staff to monitor the patient closely and minimize discomfort for those with claustrophobia. Increased oxygen supply can also help individuals suffering from air embolism, decompression sickness, burns, cerebral edema, diabetic wounds, gas gangrene, stroke, and many others.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

There is also the option of electronic health record (EHR) training and support work where you would travel to various hospitals/clinics around the country and train individuals on how to use EMR systems. Plus, I am constantly learning new things and staying up to date on clinical guidelines.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2). 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2).

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. There are many factors that make it a challenge to get answers for unexplained symptoms.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA , Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, added that ABIM provides program directors with aggregate performance data in their programs and, with permission, individual graduate data so that program directors can make adjustments to the programs as needed.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2). 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2).

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FDA Law

JUNE 27, 2024

Alternating Between Cash and Insurance According to the government’s expert, patients paying for prescriptions with insurance and for others with cash is a red flag for those paid with cash. paid for some medications with insurance while paying for other controlled medications in cash, and Patient M.W. Patient J.C.’s

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. I’m guessing not. How to screen for hearing loss. Transcript.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. By the way.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. So celiac disease can cause dyspepsia symptoms as well.

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

Whether you’re scheduling your annual physical , exploring the differences between a wellness visit vs physical , or simply wondering what’s covered under your insurance, understanding preventive care can empower you to take charge of your health. What Is Preventive Care? The goal is to avoid disease, not just treat it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2])

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Despite private and public insurance plans fully covering lung cancer screening in the United States, only 10% to 30% of eligible individuals in were receiving it in a recent state-by-state survey.

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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. ” All anti-obesity medications, even the earlier generation of these drugs—which include orlistat, phentermine, phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia) and naltrexone/bupropion (Contrave)—cause clinically significant weight loss.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. Now patients are living so much longer that they’re coming back to my clinic after I’ve treated them with radiation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite federal- and state-wide initiatives to boost access to health insurance (e.g., Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and individual health insurance marketplaces), Latinos continue to have the highest uninsured rate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. Analyses were stratified by sex.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

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FDA Law

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. On February 10th, the agency published a comprehensive proposal to update the guideline. 7,838 (Feb.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. 50 MME/day, clinicians should pause and carefully reassess evidence of individual benefits and risks. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R.,

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. I’m going to first turn to Emmy.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. If you put on your clinical hats, what is demoralization to you? What is this?

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