The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Direct Primary Care movement has picked up steam over the last seven years since we started Direct Doctors in RI. According to DPC Frontier, a site owned by a DPC physician/lawyer who was a founder of the movement, there are now over 1500 clinics doing pure Direct Care across the nation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. Study design: Descriptive epidemiological and implementation methodology description.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. Population: a 5% random sample of adult (19-64y) Quebec residents covered by the public drug insurance in 2014-2017 was used. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0) Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0)

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In 2019 we discussed the basics of why patients wait a long time to hear back, get through on the phone lines, or be seen with a primary care doctor. ​ As more primary care physicians become “burned out” with the day to day grind of a typical primary care practice.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

It was launched in 2014 as an iOS app , available in 6 languages, and among others, it offers an on-the-go skincare assessment tool as first-step guidance on skincare concerns. Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The analysis included 2014 to 2017 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges data warehouse (83,342 matriculants and 56,031 respondents to the Matriculating Student Questionnaire [MSQ]). The researchers found that attrition rates were higher among MSQ nonrespondents (3.8 percent).

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