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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Thus, he argues, physicians were ill-prepared to confront the opioid epidemic, increasing rates of depression and anxiety in conjunction with chronic illness, and the negative effects of COVID-19 on mental health.

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

government agencies do more to protect patients from the effects of biased research and aggressive sales tactics for newly marketed drugs? Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine The size of average doses would more than triple. Could the FDA and other U.S.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. Oh, and the CDC's National Immunization Survey has been canceled by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, even if the Epidemic Intelligence Service seems to have received a temporary reprieve.) this is it. over the past 30 years.