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. In early 2025, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis.

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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.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. And ‘these scenarios will need an IRL or virtual visit with the doctor.’ We’re in Quatar, Luke’s bloody diarrhea has returned.

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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

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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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 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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 the 11 million families headed by single parents who often work two or more jobs to get by and have fewer options for buying groceries. Good Energy for the Budget-Conscious"?)

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 22, 2025

Observational studies are susceptible to selection bias, though - perhaps preferring inexpensive highly processed foods is associated with poverty, and poverty itself increases the risk of dying early and unhealthy behaviors, explaining these disease associations.

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