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Misconceptions of Employer Sponsored Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Plum Health

Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it! Sadly, up to 80% do not.

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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness. Prompt treatment for personal injuries is critical, and you shouldn't have to wait in an emergency room for hours on end. Contact Hitchcock Family Medicine to schedule an appointment today.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. After one appointment, the woman who was supposed to schedule me for my next one called me “Sweetie.” I only wish I had read this article a month ago.