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The testing we order should help, not hurt
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
One should always ask: Is the result of this test going to help me make better decisions?
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New—and surprising—ways to approach migraine pain
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Who would have guessed that timolol eyedrops could be effective for acute migraine?
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Home BP monitoring is essential
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Office BPs are notoriously inaccurate, because it is exceedingly difficult to measure BP properly in a busy office setting.
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The power of the pause to prevent diagnostic error
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
I recall vividly a diagnostic error I made years ago. I was treating a patient for hyperlipidemia but my partner recognized it as a case of severe...
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A-fib prevention, treatment, and screening: Where does the evidence lead us?
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
The dilemma is that your patient with a wearable exercise monitoring device will know she has a potentially dangerous condition, but there is no...
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Keeping an open mind about functional medicine
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Does functional medicine combine “the worst features of conventional medicine with a heapin’ helpin’ of quackery”? Or is it still in its infancy...
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Despite ‘getting it wrong’ we must continue to do what’s right
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
There is no question that everyone in the United States— and most likely, the entire world—will eventually get vaccinated against COVID-19 or get...
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When the evidence suggests that placebo is best
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
- Richard Guthmann, MD, MPH
What they discovered is that no type of injection therapy has been proven to be better than a saline injection.
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Let’s talk about healthy aging (but where to begin?)
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
It may be effective to use the “chat technique” and ask open-ended questions, such as: How are things going for you?
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Moving patients beyond injury and back to work
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
I suspect that we tend to be pessimistic about our ability to influence patient outcomes because we are uncertain about the best course of action...
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To screen or not to screen children for hypertension?
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
In this issue of JFP, Smith et al recommend following guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics to...
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A thoughtful approach to drug screening and addiction
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Use of cheap street fentanyl, rather than prescription drugs, accounts for nearly all of the increase in opioid overdose deaths.
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Systemic racism: An editor’s note
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
This month’s editorial was jointly written by the editors of 10 prominent family medicine publications, including JFP, and is being published...
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Whole-person care: Our foundation, our future
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
We can no longer go “halfway” into whole-person care.
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When patients don’t get the care they should
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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
The outcome might have been much different if there had been further delay.