Family Medicine Initiative

MAY 7, 2025

While I strive to write evidence-based but easy-to-understand articles, I believe the NNT is a research concept every GP should know. It’s the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one bad outcome. Baseline risk: NNT depends on the average baseline risk of study participants, which can differ in real life patients.

GP 130

GP Family Medicine DO Screening 130

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Nearly every other Stage 4 bowel cancer patient I know has needed some kind of ongoing therapy to keep them ticking over. It messes a bit with my thoughts about returning to active duty as a GP. I was special but now I am definitely not. It's fine, like. I will have to ponder that.

GP 130

GP Specialization Screening IT 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JULY 4, 2024

I had been showered with gifts and cakes from work colleagues, as I prepared to do a little job-crafting and switch back to more GP-ing and less laptopping. Poor divil had got me confused with another non-miracle patient. It was me, my liver, up on that screen, with a blob of stuff in it that shouldn't be there.

GP 100

GP Families Family IT 100

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Also, when you do re-apply for a residency position, you will be considered a graduating medical student senior which is useful for those residency programs that automatically screen out graduates. It would also be possible to go into concierge medicine and focus on VIP patients.

GP 52

GP Medical Student Insurance General Practitioner 52

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? Family doctor (GP) : Trained to care for patients of all ages—children, adults, and elderly—often including some women’s health and minor procedures.

Internal Medicine 130

Internal Medicine GP Family Doctor Primary Care 130

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Board-Certified GP Family Physician 52