Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: M. gentialium

By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest As a followup to my blog post on the CDC guidelines for sexually-transmitted diseases, there was a recent study looking at Mycoplasma genitalium resistance in the Netherlands (see doi:10.1093/jac/dkv136). And this comes right after the comment from prior my blog noting that M. genitalium  “does respond to 1-g single dose of azithromycin (though resistance […]

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Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Arthroscopic surgery for knee OA???

By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest There have been a couple of well-publicized studies finding that arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative joint disease/osteoarthritis (OA) is not beneficial. However, there continues to be uncertainty, and “many specialists are convinced of the benefits of the procedure from their own experience”.  In the US, 700K knee arthroscopies are done each year, […]

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