A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

There, as medical director, I had a friend and ally in the behavioral health director, and both our departments underwent years of rapid growth. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. 16 years ago I was a newcomer, at age 56, in the northernmost part of Maine.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 24, 2024

This year’s event was a testament to the vibrant community of family physicians, medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals dedicated to advancing family medicine in Alabama. Dr. Anderson embodies the essence of dedicated medical service, leadership, and advocacy for health equity.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 15, 2025

“Sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior that enslaves you and keeps you from being present in life.” Usually when I set my mind to something—say, like going to medical school at the age of 35—I made it happen. Exactly five years ago today I decided to stop drinking alcohol.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients were provided a CGM, received education on medication, diet and exercise, and completed surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Patients will complete all visits by August 2024 and completed patient data, including satisfaction data, will be presented. Two practices were FQHCs.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework. Even the required operational framework for Patient Centered Medical Home recognition is completely top-down. These approaches will improve with time.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. At a recent conference, a neurologist demonstrated an AI tool that captured and structured his clinical notes while he was able to be present and maintain eye contact with the patient. Traylor, D.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: MEDICODE is a validated medical encounter coding system. In previous studies using MEDICODE, attitudes or emotions (A/E) were coded as present/absent. In previous studies using MEDICODE, attitudes or emotions (A/E) were coded as present/absent.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SETTING: Academic medical center. STUDY DESIGN/INTERVENTION: Our 2-year T32 PC research training program includes 3 curricular tenets: 1) justice, equity diversity, and inclusion; 2) translational team science, with emphasis on CER and IS; and 3) actively-mentored research with a diverse group of senior mentors.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

CHARM stands for the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine—an international group of medical educators, academic leaders, burnout researchers, and trainees dedicated to promoting trainee wellbeing.) Prioritizing your well-being makes you more efficient, effective, and present. ” The top answer across the board?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 9, 2021

[link] Summary In this special episode of the Antiracism in Medicine Series, originally recorded for the 2021 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, the CPSolvers Antiracism team discusses what must be done to make medical education more antiracist. board examinations and mandated competencies).

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AMMD

JUNE 12, 2025

Your hypothalamus, which is responsible for managing hunger, thirst, sleep, hormones, and body temperature, among other important functions, monitors the level of thyroid hormone present in your bloodstream.(1) We do not mask symptoms with medication. Managing your thyroid levels through thyroid medication is only part of the process.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 3, 2025

You have to quickly think of the right answer, which is often disguised as a question, and then press the buzzer as fast as you can before you are presented with the next challenge: Is it the thyroid? Those with complex medical problems or maladies of the soul expect me to give them the time it takes to grasp what’s important to them.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 1, 2022

Rebecca Redman presents "Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. Dr. Redman is affiliated with University Of Louisville Hospital and Robley Rex VA Medical Center. or Does It?" by first reviewing racial and ethnic differences in cancer incidence and outcomes. She then explores initiatives to address cancer disparities. Learn more here.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Presenting vaccination as the default, opt-out decision to make it easier to accept than refuse the vaccine. This last strategy is an example of nudging. And yet others pose the question, “On what basis should we judge whether a parent’s medical decision for their child is morally acceptable?”.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, it is unknown how such interventions affect medical assistants who are often responsible for carrying out these activities and may have personally experienced social barriers to health. Population Studied Medical assistants working in primary care. Intervention/Instrument Semi-structured interview guide.

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Louisville Lectures

JUNE 1, 2018

Christian Furman presents "Advance Care Planning and the Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) Form" by first discussing its importance. After, she completes the Medical Orders for Scope and Treatment Form and then documents Advance Care Planning and the MOST form in the EHR. Furman, M.D.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Philip Won & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — With the explosion of health‑related software, many software developers are generating products with functionality that is subject to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 11, 2025

Facts on False Beliefs However, research has shown that false beliefs can become even more entrenched when individuals are presented with strong evidence to the contrary. Maintaining Personal Autonomy Proponents of nudging argue that the same bypassing processes will work to our detriment if we do not nudge ourselves in our interests.

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Doctor Rachel

JULY 21, 2019

I don't know about you, but I have had a VERY busy spring—at work and at home—with multiple family members in need of support and medical care. I’m using the ritual to help plant transformation in the fields of my consciousness, so that I can be more present, more kind (especially to myself), and more able to be of service in the world.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It was at that time that they began to search for a way to operate a business outside of the confines of the insurance-based model, and discovered Direct Primary Care – a payment model by which the patient pays their physician a set monthly fee in exchange for unrestricted primary medical care. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 5, 2019

In this Grand Rounds, Dr. Jonathan Bernstein discusses chronic cough by first describing the evaluation and differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with chronic cough. He received his medical degree from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Visit his profile here.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cato — On December 10, 2021, FDA issued a discussion paper titled 3D Printing Medical Devices at the Point of Care seeking feedback on FDA regulatory oversight of various 3D-printing scenarios, in order to inform future policy development. Rather, it is meant to present various scenarios related to use of 3D?printed

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Research shows that most children presenting to the emergency department with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine can probably be safely discharged after 2 hours. Dribin, MD , of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and study coauthors. “We Risk thresholds differed by presentation, the researchers noted.

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AMMD

APRIL 16, 2025

Conventional medicine prescribes acid-reducing medications, yet these can cause liver and gut problems that may worsen your condition. It is hard to enjoy your favorite foods when nausea, digestive upset, and heartburn aren’t far behind. Many people have acid reflux, where acid and other fluids in your stomach travel back up your esophagus.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

They collected data from medical students who documented urgent medical cases during a practice internship in GP offices in Northern Germany between February and July 2024.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

If CDH is present, physicians can suggest to their patients that they avoid cold foods and drinks and monitor whether this reduces their AF episodes. If CDH is present, physicians can partner with their patients to develop strategies to avoid these triggers and to reduce AF episodes. and “In which patients is it most effective?”

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Finally, the vast majority of these submissions, whether for 510(k) clearance, de novo classification or PMA are likely to be accompanied by pre-submission requests to ensure the data the laboratories will be presenting to FDA in their submission is what the agency will expect. By Steven J. Gonzalez & Allyson B.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 12, 2022

The defining features of a case can include key or differentiating features (see more details and examples here ): Key feature : a feature that is present consistently and ideally exclusively in the condition. Differentiating feature : a feature shared among other similar conditions but not present in many diseases.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 20, 2020

Marc Heincelman Marc Heincelman is an assistant professor within the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he also serves as director of the Medicine Clerkship and Acting Internship. Roughly 10-12% of cases may present without rash (i.e., Roughly 10-12% of cases may present without rash (i.e.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m a rheumatologist and a physician scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and today we’ll be talking about giant cell arthritis as a medical emergency and what we can do about it. All of these are warning signs that visual symptom loss may be impending and thus represents a medical emergency.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Several sessions included presentations on diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), such as the Peter J. In one study that was not presented at the PNS annual meeting, the researchers aimed to assess whether evaluating balance and gait could serve as a viable screening tool of DPN. Dyck Lecture on mechanisms of diabetic neuropathic pain.

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Louisville Lectures

JANUARY 25, 2019

Gunjan Garg presents "Tubulointerstitial Disease" by first discussing pathophysiology and epidemiology. She then presents its diagnosis and evaluation as well as various causes. After, she discusses management and Ace Board questions. Dr. Garg does this through case based learning. Her clinical expertise is in Nephrology.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 21, 2020

[link] Dr. Anand Patel presents a Human Dx unknown to Rabih and Indiana residents – Drs. She earned her medics degree from Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio (Go Walking Whales!). Anand’s academic interests include medical education and clinical reasoning. Devika Gandhi and Cody Hill.

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