The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

FITs would save nearly as many lives as colonoscopy with far fewer complications. Contrary to expected, individuals with lower incomes and less education perceived less difficulty with collection. Context: FITs are an accepted method of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and patients’ preferences and difficulties are unknown.

Screening 130

Screening Patients Individual Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Conclusions: Economic, social, and geographic factors are associated with diabetic adults receiving an annual eye exam.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Screening Insurance Healthcare 130

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Red flags that you should always ask about include hematemesis, melana, dysphagia, and Unintentional weight loss, these all need further investigation for complications like esophagitis or another diagnosis such as EOE or peptic ulcer disease. Remember, our community pediatricians, family medicine doctors, are brilliant.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic associated fatty liver disease all have the potential to cause life-altering complications and premature death. Sometimes these conditions can be controlled with lifestyle changes alone, but not all of these risk factors are under our control.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Primary Care Physician Medical Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? While the media and politicians talk mainly about heroic intensive care or impressive new technologies, the real work happens nonetheless in family medicine offices.

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