Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a family doctor, I hear my patients talk about their “medicine cabinet full of old medicines” all the time. Feel free to share this blog so that if your primary care doctor sends you a survey to take in the future, you will be able to report you are doing things safely and correctly! It’s ok to admit it.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. A recent analysis of the U.S. in 2000 to 59.8%

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! For instance, in May, I prescribed a diabetic medicine for a patient. The cost was also above $1000 so the patient left the pharmacy empty handed.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. Not only is it difficult to clinically predict osteoporosis risk, fragility fractures can occur in patients without osteoporosis.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 15, 2025

But over the past 5 years, I have watched with increasing dismay as family physicians and urologists (mis)interpreted the U.S. We Should Be Doing Fewer PSA Tests, But We Are Doing More ," I pleaded in a 2022 Medscape commentary for primary care physicians. Then I wrote a paper about it.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Physicians who practice internal medicine are called internists or internal medicine doctors. How is it different from general practice?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

My article concluded: When reviewing colorectal cancer screening test choices with patients, family physicians can continue to recommend annual or biennial FIT as a comparable option to colonoscopy. But an analysis published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that it does not.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

I've spent the past week as the attending physician on my residency program's adult inpatient service. However, we did not observe a significant association with patient deaths after discharge overall." More than a decade into the program, it remains uncertain whether TCM actually improves outcomes.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. The ad states that patients may pay as little as $5 per dose, 4 times per year.… Who could blame a patient for believing the drug doesn’t cost much.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% How can we train more family physicians? growth in the U.S. And if you build it, will they come?

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