Medscape Family Medicine: The Doctor Is Lin

2024

78. The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Primary Care (1/25/24)

79. Why I No Longer Remove Toenails in Primary Care (2/5/24)

80. Mild Cognitive Impairment: What Can We Do in Primary Care? (3/8/24)

81. CRC Screening in Primary Care: The Blood Test Option (4/22/24)

82. Starting Mammograms at 40: Not a Change for the Better (5/9/24)

83. How the New Vitamin D Guidelines Will, and Won't, Change My Practice (7/24/24)

84. It's Never Too Late to Convince Patients to Quit Smoking (8/16/24)

85. Starting Mammography at Age 40 May Backfire Due to False Positives (9/17/24)

86. America's PCPs: Take a Bow (11/5/24)

ARCHIVES BY SERIES

Department of Family Medicine, GUMC (Jan 2015-May 2022)

The Doctor Is Lin (July 2022-Present)

ARCHIVES BY YEAR

2015

1. Lung Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen (1/16/15)

2. Transforming Primary Care One House Call at a Time (3/31/15)

3. Can Patients Understand the Concept of Overdiagnosis? (4/7/15)

4. Screening Mammography Guidelines: The Change Clinicians Should Know (5/29/15)

5. Conflicts of Interest and Guidelines: Is Bias A Worry? (7/27/15)

6. Primary Care Training: Follow the Money (8/7/15)

7. "Death Panels": Moving Beyond the Rhetoric (9/10/15)

8. Breast Cancer Screening: The Evidence Is Piling Up (10/26/15)

9. Putting SPRINT in Focus for Primary Care (11/16/15)

10. Opioid Abuse: A Primary Care-Created Problem? (12/22/15)

2016

11. Make No Mistake! A Strategic Plan for Diagnostic Error (2/10/16)

12. Primary Care: No 'Match' for Higher-Income Specialties (3/21/16)

13. Aspirin for Primary Prevention: 2016 USPSTF Recommendations (4/14/16)

14. Unequal Treatment: Teaching About Racism During Medical Education (6/20/16)

15. Navigating the Opioid Crisis: A Primary Care Perspective (8/2/16)

16. Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: More Harm Than Good? (8/22/16)

17. Diabetes Prevention: More Than Just Screening and Lifestyle Changes (10/18/16)

18. Does Combatting Physician Burnout Improve Patient Care As Well? (11/18/16)

19. Improving Family Medicine: Expanding Nurses' Role (12/19/16)

2017

20. Pharmacologic Management of Hypertension: A New Guideline from ACP and AAFP (1/24/17)

21. Are the Testosterone Trials the Final Word? A Primary Care Perspective (3/6/17)

22. The American Health Care Act: What Can We Check Off on the Primary Care Wish List? (3/20/17)

23. Prostate Cancer Screening Is Back in the News: What Now? (4/17/17)

24. Overestimating Osteoporosis Prevalence Carries Its Own Risks (6/7/17)

25. Does Primary Care Really Save Lives? (7/7/17)

26. We Need More Doctors with Disabilities (8/21/17)

27. New Study Finds PSA Screening Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths by Approximately 25% - Is It Valid? (9/12/17)

28. When Is Evidence Enough To Justify Widespread Screening? (11/13/17)

29. New Hypertension Guideline: A Case of Guideline Creep? (12/13/17)

2018

30. Atrial Fibrillation: Is Screening A Good Idea? (2/14/18)

31. A New Prostate Cancer Screening Trial: Anything to See Here? (3/16/18)

32. Limiting Opioid Prescribing: The Fallout From Arbitrary Rules (5/8/18)

33. Are Primary Care Physicians Really Doing A Lousy Job of Screening for Lung Cancer? (6/4/18)

34. Yet Another Cancer Screening Recommendation. This Time Up: Colon (7/11/18)

35. Measuring BP is Simple, Right? Not So Fast (8/14/18)

36. Choosing to Do - Or Not Do - A Genital Exam (9/17/18)

37. The Latest Aspirin Research: Implications for Primary Care (9/25/18)

38. More Bad News About Dietary Supplements (11/5/18)

39. New Lipid Guidelines: A Primary Care Perspective (11/30/18)

2019

40. Let's Face It - Some of Our Patients Need to Be on Long-Term Opioids (2/4/19)

41. A Game-Changer to Prevent Cognitive Loss? Maybe Not (3/15/19)

42. Well-Woman Care: The Evidence That Less Is More (4/17/19)

43. How Can Busy Family Docs Take On Another Role? (7/2/19)

44. Lung Cancer Screening: False Positives and True Benefits (7/25/19)

45. New Payment Models for Primary Care: Band-Aid or Cure? (8/20/19)

46. Should We Even Talk About a PSA? (10/22/19)

47. Colorectal Cancer: To Screen or Not? (12/5/19)

2020

48. Dense Breasts: Who Needs More Imaging? (1/8/20)

49. Telemedicine Tales: Let's Reschedule When You're Not Shopping (5/20/20)

50. Will Primary Care Physicians Be COVID-19's Next Victims? (6/18/20)

51. I've Changed My Mind on Lung Cancer Screening (8/18/20)

52. The Lipid Guideline I Follow In Primary Care (9/25/20)

53. Malignant Takes A Critical Look At Cancer Policy (book review) (10/12/20)

2021

54. Ditch the Waiting Room (and Other Post-COVID Ideas) (1/28/21)

55. Why I've Changed My Approach to Mammography in Older Women (2/22/21)

56. To Fix COVID Vaccine Hesitancy, Trust Primary Care (3/30/21)

57. Back to In-Person Visits? Choose Carefully, and Don't Give Away What We've Gained (6/4/21)

58. Why Primary Care Physicians Should Worry About the Approval of Aducanumab (7/12/21)

59. Who Should, and Who Shouldn't, Take Aspirin for Primary CVD Prevention (11/18/21)

2022

60. How We Could Actually Do Prevention in Primary Care (1/6/22)

61. Staff Shortages, Pay Gaps, and Burnout. Why Reid Blackwelder Is Still Hopeful About Primary Care (2/4/22)

62. We Should Be Doing Fewer PSA Tests, but We Are Doing More (2/28/22)

63. Pain in Vain or Flexible Prescribing? CDC's Draft Opioid Guidance (3/22/22)

64. Why Are We a 'Loss Leader' for Procedural Subspecialties? (5/6/22)

65. New Job, Old Nemesis: The Quality Bonus (7/27/22)

66. Why I'm Back to Seeing Kids and Pregnant Patients in Family Practice (9/29/22)

67. Head-to-Toe Skin Cancer Exam in Primary Care Does More Harm Than Good (11/17/22)

68. Debating the Clinical Trial Upending Colonoscopy Practices (11/28/22)

69. Report A Patient Who Is Driving While Using Cannabis? Yes, I Would (12/27/22)

2023

70. Why I Won't Be Screening All Adults for Sleep Apnea (3/8/23)

71. TNT: You Need It, But Guidelines Won't Give It To You (4/3/23)

72. The New Vaccine That Your Patients May Not Want (5/22/23)

73. The Medicare Behemoth Finally Smiles on Primary Care (7/14/23)

74. The Best CRC Screening Test Is Still This One (8/7/23)

75. We Can Do a Lot About OUD in Primary Care (11/3/23)

76. Why I'm Sticking with the USPSTF on Lung Cancer Screening (11/13/23)

77. Primary Care, Meet Lifestyle Medicine (12/18/23)