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When the diagnosis is personal: What my mother’s Alzheimer’s taught me about healing

KevinMD

I’ve spent my career as a neurologist diagnosing and managing neurodegenerative diseases. I’ve counseled families through heartbreaking prognoses, navigated complex care plans, and educated patients about conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Post-rotation, 64% of residents felt more comfortable diagnosing OUD. Notable, 92.9%

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

Many of us have seen stories in the news about American families on diagnostic odysseys for their children with rare diseases. Which one of those 17 doctors ultimately was able to pull together the pieces of Alex’s health picture and suggest a diagnosis? None of them. It was the AI program ChatGPT.

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Differences in Confidence Levels in Eight Sources of Information between Rural and Urban Cancer Patients and Survivors [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Understanding health information seeking behavior is critical in providing effective interventions and improving quality of life for patients, especially for those facing complex health needs. Newly diagnosed cancer patients in rural areas are less likely to rely on structured sources of information, even after adjusting for all covariates.

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You don’t need X-Rays to tell if a child is constipated

PEMBlog

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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A New Outlook: How Carrier Screening Shaped One Family’s Future

Myriad Genetics

When Ashley Pantier and her husband decided to start a family, they were young, healthy, and filled with a sense of joyful optimism. In fact, most babies with genetic conditions are born to parents with no known family history of that disease. Ashley’s journey to a diagnosis for Christopher probably felt like forever to their family.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.