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- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: July 20, 2022
One should always ask: Is the result of this test going to help me make better decisions?
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: June 13, 2022
Who would have guessed that timolol eyedrops could be effective for acute migraine?
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: May 10, 2022
Office BPs are notoriously inaccurate, because it is exceedingly difficult to measure BP properly in a busy office setting.
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: April 11, 2022
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 ...
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: March 8, 2022
The dilemma is that your patient with a wearable exercise monitoring device will know she has a potentially dangerous condition, but there is no ev...
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: January 21, 2022
Does functional medicine combine “the worst features of conventional medicine with a heapin’ helpin’ of quackery”? Or is it still in its infancy an...
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: December 8, 2021
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 i...
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: November 17, 2021
What they discovered is that no type of injection therapy has been proven to be better than a saline injection.
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- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: October 21, 2021
It may be effective to use the “chat technique” and ask open-ended questions, such as: How are things going for you?
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: July 26, 2021
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.<...
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: June 22, 2021
In this issue of JFP, Smith et al recommend following guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics to ann...
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: April 12, 2021
Use of cheap street fentanyl, rather than prescription drugs, accounts for nearly all of the increase in opioid overdose deaths.
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: January 29, 2021
This month’s editorial was jointly written by the editors of 10 prominent family medicine publications, including JFP, and is being published simul...
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: December 11, 2020
We can no longer go “halfway” into whole-person care.
Article
- Author:
- John Hickner, MD, MSc
Publish date: November 11, 2020
The outcome might have been much different if there had been further delay.
