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Development of a Multidisciplinary Clinic for the Treatment of Obesity in a Canadian University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To implement and evaluate a novel multidisciplinary trajectory aimed at improving the treatment of obesity thus preventing multiple health-related complications. Population Studied Patients with obesity enrolled in the Méta-Santé clinic.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78 Also, limited life expectancy increases the likelihood of complications from most procedures, including radiation therapy. times as likely to develop bladder cancer, and 100 times as likely to develop radiation cystitis and proctitis.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

In addition, a recent analysis of colonoscopy quality at two high-volume rural programs (University of Texas Southwestern and University of North Dakota) for family physicians, general surgeons, and gastroenterologists found no statistical differences in performance by provider type.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

When things become complicated, sometimes the easiest approach to clarity is to simply breakdown all of the complications to their most basic forms. If your symptoms are minor but you are concerned, such as a sniffle or sore throat or occasional cough, stay home or touch base with your family doctor's office for further guidance.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. growth in the U.S.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. Please remind people of these serious complications which, though infrequent, cannot be reversed.