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What do the Air Force and family medicine have in common? AI

The decline of VBAC: hearing hoofbeats, thinking zebras

My favorite public health and health care books of 2023

Deliberate clinical inertia protects patients from low value care

Will the high price of gene therapy for sickle cell disease put this cure out of reach?

Imitation may be a form of flattery, but plagiarism hurts

As goes college, so goes health care?

From the archives: What can Rwanda teach the US about primary care?

From the archives: Don't do stupid sh*t in cancer screening

Bariatric surgery and other AAP recommendations for children with obesity

From the archives: False alarms and unrealistic expectations in preventive care

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Medical debt is a moral failure of our health care non-system

Health journal editors and the Pope call for action on the climate crisis

Task Force to revisit prostate cancer screening recommendations

Coronary artery calcium is a common finding in older adults

Prescribing food as medicine lowers weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar

CMS announces “top 10” costly drugs list selected for price negotiations

For accurate blood pressure measurement, cuff size matters

Preventing Overdiagnosis: do Americans have too many cancer screening choices?

Get out the vote: supporting civic health in primary care

Current prescriptions for addressing health-related social needs fall short

Increasing recognition of Parkinson disease in Black patients

To break the UK's National Health Service, roll out prostate cancer screening

Many areas of the U.S. lack integrated behavioral health in primary care

Housing matters for good health

Patient portals and electronic health record transparency: pros and cons

Counseling parents about the leading cause of death in U.S. children: guns

What's the matter with corporate primary care?

Updated immunization and screening recommendations aim to eradicate hepatitis B

Have pharmaceutical conflicts of interest unduly influenced asthma guidelines?

Raising and lowering barriers to preventive services in the U.S.

Potential downsides of ADHD overdiagnosis

How does family medicine fare in the National Resident Match?

Carried by deer ticks, babesiosis is spreading in the northeastern U.S.

Aspirin, preeclampsia, and heart disease in later life and children

Springing forward and building my Substack

"I want to be a regular doctor" - making primary care the norm

Individualizing drug therapy for adults with major depressive disorder

Diagnosing ovarian and other cancers with human and artificial intelligence

Health care heroism

AI like ChatGPT will not make family physicians obsolete

Integrating AI into family medicine education and practice

New clinical recommendations on osteoporosis treatment

Improving early cancer diagnosis: it's (mostly) not about screening