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One of my patients finally visited without her husband

It was a woman in her 60s with the usual metabolic problems - DM, HTN, HLD. She had CKD3 when I first met her like...

I misdiagnosed a patient, and now i want to quit

I'm an intern and I misdiagnosed a patient. No one has criticized me for it, but i wish someone had. I wish i could apologize...

RFK Gunning For the USPSTF

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5841498-rfk-jr-to-revamp-influential-preventive-services-panel/ As a PCP, I love the USPSTF. A nice, boring, basically apolitical group unbesmirched by most popular media that has a pretty big say...

Your advocacy works! The supermajority Republican-controlled Florida State Legislature rejected Ron DeSantis's push to loosen vaccine mandates for schoolchildren

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/ron-desantis-gop-florida-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.jfcW.WToBNZNTVXq5&smid=url-share The speaker of the Florida State House, father of three young children, said outright that he was concerned about "children being in school without measles...