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You Know DPC is working when…

Noreta Family Medicine

You Know DPC is working when… I decided to do something a little different in this blog. I’ve written blogs that discuss my perspective on why Direct Primary Care (DPC) is helpful to both patients and physicians in Columbia, SC (and beyond!). At Noreta, we provide care that considers patients’ health and finances.

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Combating Food Insecurity in Minnesota

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. M Health Fairview’s Fair Table program ensures convenient access to food during medical appointments.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Anybody with a DEA and… I should be very careful because this is different for physicians and advanced practice providers. And Katie, as an advanced practice provider, is much better than I am at explaining how this works. What is it called?

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Over time, more trust develops.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers.