It used to be the case that having a primary care doctor was the rule, not the exception. In the past, going to “the doctor” was understood to mean your primary care doctor – the person who knew you the best and helped optimize your health. Nowadays, with the proliferation of specialists and big health […]
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Last week, we touched on the trust equation and why trust in doctors is eroding. Today I want to focus a bit more on the second half of the equation – listening – and show how this going awry contributes to the crisis of physician mistrust. The Value of Listening What do functional medicine practitioners,
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The CMS Innovation Center has released a white paper describing the new administration’s strategy to “Make America Healthy Again.” While light on details, the white paper scaffolds the general approach I think we can expect the federal government to take under a second Trump administration when it comes to healthcare. The three pillars of the
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It’s no secret that trust in physicians has fallen. What can bring it back?
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A recent study was published in Cureus which piqued my attention, and not only because I’ve long been interested in the direct care model. The study describes the characteristics of pediatricians practicing direct primary care, a subscription-based alternative to traditional insurance-based medical practice where a family or individual pays a single monthly fee for care
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