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Hospitals are Filling - Time to Turn to Primary Care

The Direct Doctors Difference

The hospitals in RI are over 90% capacity for inpatient beds and ICUs are at more than 80%. In states like FL, which are extremely hard hit right now, some ICUs and hospitals are unable to accept any patients. Not because I am trying to scare you out of going to the hospital when you need it or to make you think all is lost.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

There’s radiation keeps getting less and less and there are studies that you can avoid radiation if you have this stage one or even two small or low grade or sometimes even, whatever, higher grade two, but not in the nodes type of breast cancer, an ER-positive or HER2-negative. And so then they saw their PCP.