33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

You can prove it by asking a bunch of doctors and patients how they’re supposed to use MyChart messages you’ll get a wild range of responses. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. And ‘these scenarios will need an IRL or virtual visit with the doctor.’

Patients 75

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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. Many wonder: What does an internal medicine doctor do?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Recognizing their potential to save money and improve outcomes, in 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began allowing practices to bill separately for transitional care management (TCM) services that included an interactive contact within two business days of discharge and a dedicated face-to-face office visit within 14 days.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. Although prevalence estimates in North America are low (1.5% of women, 2.7%

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. The case manager. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

Finally, clinicians in leadership and population health management roles should advocate for cost-effective investments in patient navigation to enhance colorectal cancer screening and diagnostic colonoscopy completion rates, because these initiatives play a crucial role in preventing colorectal cancer deaths.

Screening 69

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.

Hospital 52

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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." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

Family Medicine 52

Family Medicine DO Family Families 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

Michael Pollan's pithy "eat [real] food, not too much, mostly plants"), and has received positive reviews in publications ranging from NPR to Family Medicine. For these families, the healthiness of food may not be their top priority.

Patient-Centered 59

Patient-Centered Family Families Family Medicine 59

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 22, 2025

Now that the newly inaugurated President has withdrawn the U.S. from the World Health Organization , presumably paving the way for RFK Jr., Now that the newly inaugurated President has withdrawn the U.S. from the World Health Organization , presumably paving the way for RFK Jr., The 19th century, for example?

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