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Geographic barriers delay diagnoses, worsen outcomes, and increase morbidity from inflammatory skin disease and mortality from skin cancer, and patients often travel hours for specialty care.

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Drs Kaniksha Desai and Angela Leung discuss the new guidelines for thyroid disease in preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum.

Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation get the blame for declining patient trust, but Dr Kenny Lin argues a major factor is being overlooked: disappearing continuity of care.

More than 50 million Americans live in counties without a radiation oncology practice site as rural and community-based centers disappear at higher rates.

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