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Common Sense Family Doctor

Kenny Lin

Common sense thoughts on public health and conservative medicine from Dr. Kenny Lin, a family doctor in Lancaster, PA.

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Reducing unnecessary phototherapy for jaundice in newborns

Up to 4 in 5 newborns will develop jaundice from the accumulation of unconjugated bilirubin during the first week of life. Most of the time, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is benign and does not require intervention. To prevent the rare outcom...

7 days ago
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Advocacy groups killed the Canadian Task Force. Is the USPSTF next?

If the “third rail” of the U.S. health care system is Medicare, the third rail of preventive medicine is screening mammography. History has shown that North American evidence-based medicine panels are imperiled when they suggest that breast...

13 days ago
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Deprescribing statins

If you found out that a medication you had been taking for years was much less effective than previously advertised, would you keep taking it?

An estimated 20 to 30 percent of Americans over the age of 45 takes a statin for high cholestero...

24 days ago
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Screening for type 1 diabetes: what would the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend?

It has now been 15 months since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) last met. In the interim, several members’ 4-year terms expired, and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. fired the two remaining Vice Chairs, leaving the USPSTF leaderless a...

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Stopping an outbreak: hantavirus on the MV Hondius

Although an estimated two-thirds of international travelers will develop a travel-related illness, most fevers and respiratory symptoms have self-limiting causes. A notable exception was an outbreak of severe acute respiratory illness that...

2 months ago
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    I am a family physician practicing in Lancaster, PA. I am also Deputy Editor of the journal American Family Physician and Associate Director of the Lancaster General Health / Penn Medicine Family Medicine Residency program.

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