KevinMD

JUNE 15, 2025

Were he alive today, he’d likely see NarxCare, the controversial opioid-risk AI algorithm, as a cautionary tale about the dangers of replacing human Read more… How Mark Twain would dismantle today’s flawed medical AI originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

JUNE 15, 2025

Today I graduated from medical school. I walked across the stage, accepted my diploma, stretched my smile from cheek Read more… Graduating from medical school without family: a story of strength and survival originally appeared in KevinMD.com. It should have been one of the happiest days of my life. And in some ways, it was.

Family 157

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Medication review is an essential part of most office visits. Objective: We aimed to compare medication review activities between private and public clinics. Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Outcome Measures: Regimen changes and medication related safety issues.

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Clinic Medical Primary Care Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To synthesize literature on pain-related medication in adults with ID and examine how it relates to MLTCs and polypharmacy and explore the views of adults with ID, caregivers and healthcare providers on pain medication use. There was over-prescribing of antipsychotic medication without an associated diagnosis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine medical trainees’ perspectives on current NBM practices and on narrative humility, and to assess their views on the effectiveness of NBM education via peer-led interactive workshop. Population Studied: Participants were mainly medical students, as well as residents and clinicians.

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KevinMD

JUNE 20, 2025

Most notably, I have found it increasingly difficult to understand or process how some medical professionals can remain silent or Read more… Adriana Smith’s story: a medical tragedy under heartbeat laws originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Transitions of care (TOC) between healthcare settings carry numerous safety hazards and high risk for medication harm, particularly for patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). Results: Study participants shared both their experiences related to medication safety, as well as barries to patient-centeredness.

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Edge Family Medicine

MARCH 12, 2025

While allergies are frustrating, the right combination of prevention, natural remedies, and medical treatments can help keep symptoms under control. Natural Remedies for Allergy Relief While medications can be effective, natural approaches may also provide relief. Many people find a combination of treatments works best.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Concerns about declining diversity among medical students have emerged due to the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Medical schools must now eliminate race or ethnicity considerations, making it imperative to develop innovative approaches to preserve recent progress.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education. Objective Assess how a lecture on HT during a 4-week family medicine (FM) clerkship impacts medical student knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding HT. Population Studied FM clerkship students.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To link primary care electronic medical record (EMR) data with community and hospital data and to test the utility of the merged dataset through a targeted quality improvement (QI) intervention among high-risk patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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Primary Care Electronics Hospital Medical 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Feelings of impostorism have been reported among medical students5. Objective This study examined IP in medical students at Penn State College of Medicine using visual and narrative arts to describe their experiences in Professional Identity Formation (PIF) and IP as both product (mask) and process (experiences).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Prescription medication sharing involves giving and using of medicine(s) prescribed for someone else. It is a form of inappropriate medication use; when not taken correctly, prescription medicines can cause harm. To summarise, people highlighted challenges to accessing services leading to medication sharing.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To assess the extent, experiences and perceptions related to cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation among reproductive age females who use medical cannabis. Study Design An anonymous online survey was administered to medical cannabis dispensary clients between August and October 2023. viewed is as unsafe, and 33.7%

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 31, 2025

Learning a new skill or taking on a new role - maybe adding some medical student lectures in or taking on a leadership role. Seeking out a mentor or peer support to process challenges. Identifying one area where you’d like to grow and setting a small, achievable goal.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia. This indicates poor quality of life (QOL) for SCD patients and a high financial burden on the healthcare system.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite copious evidence of the positive health impact of Medical legal partnerships (MLP), public funding remains subject to economic arguments seeking return on investment (ROI) from the perspective of public payers. To date, there are less than a handful of economic analyses for MLP in the published literature.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Medical legal partnerships (MLP) are an effective intervention for social determinants of health, like housing, education, and employment status. Despite consistent positive impact on health and wellbeing, public funding for MLP exists in less than a handful of states.

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NPR Health

JUNE 13, 2025

A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety. Image credit: Kevin Dietsch)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context When it comes to advanced directives, research has shown that providers should initiate the conversation for their patients, however completion rates for these conversations are very low.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 5, 2025

In Sweden, back when I trained, three blood tests were the “routine labs” done at most doctor visits: Hemoglobin, White Bloood Cell Count and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate. I’m trying to remember, but I don’t think everyone waited an hour to see the doctor, so they must have used a modified rapid sedimentation rate.

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KevinMD

JUNE 8, 2025

Administrative violence in medicine is often understood as harm to patients due to systemic issues; however, administrative violence in medicine is also a process used to inflict harm on physicians, destabilizing the medical field on both systemic and individual levels.

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KevinMD

JUNE 12, 2025

A comprehensive 2025 framework on medical education reform has laid bare a critical challenge: The traditional path to becoming a doctor is failing to meet the demands of modern health care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) remains unclear. Objective: To assess the epidemiology and mortality risk among patients with AKI discharged from AMCs in the US from October 2019 to December 2023.

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: We introduced a comprehensive collection of pre-configured nested order panels (xOrders) for the top 80% medication and laboratory orders in adult primary care. Population Study: Primary care clinicians including MD/DO and advanced practice providers (i.e., nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Utilities Finance 130

KevinMD

JUNE 16, 2025

Every medical professional is now educated on the risks of opioids. We are more than a decade into what has been called the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Nearly every hospital has issued guidelines about careful prescribing. And yet — at the bedside, some things haven’t changed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models.

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KevinMD

JUNE 24, 2025

As a health care professional, I’ve often observed how one critical aspect of medication safety and efficacy gets overlooked: food-drug interactions. Every day, we prescribe and dispense powerful medications — but what patients eat alongside those medications can completely alter their effects.

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KevinMD

JUNE 7, 2025

All medical malpractice lawsuits stem from complications caused by medical interventions. Others are systemic medical errors, caused by medical interventions gone astray. Clinically, a medical error and an error of nature are indistinguishable. Herein lies the problem in medical malpractice.

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KevinMD

JUNE 16, 2025

Eighty-five thousand medical malpractice lawsuits are filed per year, but the total number of claims reviewed by lawyers is unknown. What underlies their decision to proceed is their inability to determine which complication results from a systemic medical error in a medical intervention and which is just a random error of nature.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The present study investigates the factors influencing the dynamics of medication and non-medication adherence in young Chinese adults with hypertension. During the 6 months follow up, the groups with decreased, unchanged, and increased medication adherence consisted of 16 (28%), 30 (53%), and 11 (19%) cases, respectively.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This can fuel poor impressions among medical students and dispirit practicing family physicians. Population Studied and Instruments: Medical students, family medicine (FM) residents, and practicing physicians in all provinces and territories. Context: Concerns about family practice are well-founded, but also negatively biased.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, facing the challenges brought by China's national health strategy, aging population, and high incidence of chronic diseases, there is an urgent need to improve the service capacity of China's primary medical institutions.

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Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

KevinMD

JUNE 14, 2025

It was not due to a lack of medical skill or knowledge, as certain physicians were labeled “troublemakers” and “threats” to health care in our small community. Several decades ago at our local hospital in northern Los Angeles County, an onslaught against doctors began.

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KevinMD

JUNE 15, 2025

He recounts a family conference where a doctor’s use of medical jargon like Read more… Why what doctors say matters more than you think [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. .” Scott shares two compelling scenarios illustrating the profound impact of a physician’s communication.

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Family Families Medical Patients 167

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. Only 15% (n=5) received emergency response training outside of residency, with 3% (n=1) during medical school.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Gender affirming medical care is associated with long term benefits for transgender and non-binary patients but access to such care does not meet the current need. This mismatch is worsened in rural communities. Responses to open-ended questions led to changes in the format for the second cohort.

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