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Michigan's Best Primary Care: Here’s Why It's a Game Changer for Your Health!

Plum Health

While urgent care clinics are great for immediate, non-life-threatening issues like a sprained ankle or flu symptoms, they don’t provide the long-term, personalized care that primary care does. Chronic Disease Management Primary care is also crucial for managing chronic diseases.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? GPs improve prevention, which avoids diseases.