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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

to 3.33, indicating that even the most pragmatic studies fell well short of simulating conditions in community settings. Interventions included patient navigation, outreach calls, and decision aids; control groups received usual care or informational materials. The mean study scores ranged from 2.12

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule went into effect requiring television and radio advertisements for drugs to communicate risk and contraindications in a “clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner.”

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. Another Health Affairs study documented that the percentages of residency programs with rural and FQHC training sites rose from 6.2% in 2023-24.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Sadly, when all medical waste is somebody's income, there is little enthusiasm in the medical-industrial complex or on Capitol Hill in allocating the $3 trillion the U.S.