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Wait Times: Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Primary Care

The Direct Doctors Difference

As an update to that blog , we want to begin by highlighting again that according to Merritt Hawkins, the average wait time for a new patient appointment with a primary care doctor is 29 days, up 50% from 2014. In Rhode Island, the wait continues to be much longer. What does this mean for primary care (and specialist offices for that matter)?

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 59:e10. And so a lot of the previous studies on getting blood cultures were done in the immediate post Haemophilus influenzae B and Prevnar vaccine era.

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