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Spring 2024

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024)

Charting the Future Together

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Rare Skin Lesion on a Newborn

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Colorectal Cancer Guide for Family Physicians

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Family physicians play an integral role in educating patients about the current screening recommendations and modalities of available screening to improve early detection and allow treatment at its earl...

Orthopedic Hip Injuries Encountered in the Primary Care Setting

Hip pain and disorders are commonly seen in adults and children in the primary care setting. Primary care physicians can manage many of these disorders through physical examinations and basic radiographs, but some may pose a challenge requiring advanced imaging and specialist interventio...

Common Orthopedic Hand and Wrist Diagnoses Encountered in the Primary Care Setting

Primary care physicians are crucial in diagnosing and managing hand and wrist pain. As the first point of contact for patients, primary care physicians develop individualized treatment plans, which may involve prescribing medications, recommending physical therapy, providing joint inject...

Cervical Cancer Screening

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Considerations for an Osteopathic Approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the joints. The condition causes inflammation, pain, stiffness, and sometimes deformity in the affected joints. RA can also affect other parts of the body, including the lungs, heart, and eyes, and it can lead to long-...

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Rural medicine

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How Crowdsourcing & Crowdfunding Are Fueling Health Care Innovation

Informational and financial exchanges, which take place among groups of like-minded people with a specific directive or purpose, are referred to as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, respectively. Crowdsourcing is an open call for intellectual contributions; it is a means by which individua...

Unipolar & Bipolar Disorder: A Primary Care Perspective

Mood disorders are a group of mental health conditions that afflict an estimated 21 million American adults each year. Due to the high incidence of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder, in the general population, a family physician must be prepared to...

Ethical Considerations in Prescribing or Withholding Opioids for Chronic Pain

Pain is among the most common reasons that patients seek help from their physicians in the United States: it is estimated that chronic pain results in up to $635 billion per year in health care costs and lost productivity.The management of chronic pain is complex and can be problematic f...

Preventing Premature Weaning

The benefits of breastfeeding are well established. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that mothers breastfeed infants for at least one year, but most children are not breastfed that long because of many factors. Breastfeeding mothe...

Treatment Options for Ulcerative Colitis

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