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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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Wait Times: Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Primary Care

The Direct Doctors Difference

In 2019 we discussed the basics of why patients wait a long time to hear back, get through on the phone lines, or be seen with a primary care doctor. We’ve heard of patients quoted a six to twelve month wait period before they can see a doctor as a new patient!

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. He’s the director of the program for Care and S tudy of the A ging H eart and director of the H eart F ailure with P reserved E jection Fraction program. He’s in Boston. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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Today we talk with Mara Schonberg, who has been tackling this issue from a variety of angles: building an index to estimate prognosis for older adults, writing about how to talk with older adults about stopping screening, a randomized trial of her decision aid , and how to talk to older adults about their long term prognosis. AlexSmithMD.