Commentary
Commentary
What’s the ‘secret sauce’ to help patients move more?
When surveyed about aerobic exercise and strength training, only 24.6% meet weekly recommendations.
Opinion
Screen time and teenagers: Principles for parents
If screen time interferes with building independence, cultivating healthy social relationships, learning about their identity, managing their...
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Ozempic: The latest weight loss craze and how over-prescribing is harming patients
“Most of us have seen our patients with diabetes having difficulty getting a prescription for Ozempic filled,” says family physician.
Opinion
COVID-19 vaccinations lag in youngest children
As of March 1, 2023, only 8% of children under 2 years and 10.5% of children ages 2-4 years have initiated a COVID vaccine series.
The Optimized Doctor
How to become wise
Wise is more than being brilliant at bullous diseases or knowing how to sleep train a baby.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Which recommendations on screening, diagnosing, and treating eating disorders are most helpful?
Recently, it has become more widely accepted that eating disorders may be found across people of a variety of socioeconomic statuses.
Commentary
TikTok’s fave weight loss drugs: Link to thyroid cancer?
The TikTok videos may continue, the celebrity chatter may increase, and we, as physicians, will continue to look to real-world data with...
Opinion
LGBTQ+ teens in homophobic high schools
Comparing these two local high schools reinforced to me how visibility really matters in creating a childhood experience that is nurturing versus...
Opinion
Notes on direct admission of pediatric patients
Whether our local situation favors direct admission or ED preadmission evaluation, it is our job to make the communication flow with the patient’s...
Commentary
Will new guidelines widen the gap in treating childhood obesity?
Those aware of the access barriers to the recommended obesity treatments worry about the consequences that the new guidelines will have in the...
Managing Your Practice
Firing patients
One might assume that, just as patients are free to accept or reject their doctors, physicians have an equal right to reject their patients; to a...