Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Let’s explore the meaning and function of internal medicine and its importance in keeping adults healthy through all stages of life.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

This is why you must do a little research before you make a decisive stance on which doctor you choose. Which Is Better: Internal Medicine or Family Medicine? Family medicine practitioners and internal medicine practitioners—referred to as internists—both practice as physicians.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

But an analysis published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that it does not. is one of only a few countries in the world that relies on colonoscopy as a primary method of screening for colorectal cancer (rather than reserving it for the evaluation of people who test positive on stool-based screenings).

Screening 69

Screening Internal Medicine Family Physician Provider 69

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. Schools with primary care pathway programs that send a majority of students into non-family medicine residencies may not be creating future primary care physicians.

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