Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a model that helps patients get better care by removing 3rd party companies like insurance companies. Insurance companies can often deny paying for certain treatments or lab studies and working directly with a doctor eliminates that problem. Direct Primary Care also affords patients more access to doctors. Read our DPC articles here.
Here is another favorite recipe in the Lessing home – it is a little more time intensive than some of our usual weeknight recipes, so it is a special treat when we have it on the menu. This recipe is from Kate from the blog Cookie and Kate.
It is unacceptable that so many in the LGBTQ community have faced harassment or discrimination while seeing a healthcare provider.
My favorite books in the last few years have all been about food. This is because I love to eat, I love to garden, and I wholeheartedly believe food is one of the top six most important determinants of our overall health (food, exercise, sleep, relationships, purpose, safety).
One of the most common things that I see in family medicine is patients with various aches and pains: low back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, just to name a few that I’ve seen this week already!
Newer guidelines recommend all adults can start screening for colon cancer at the age of 45, or younger if there is a strong family history of colon cancer. Colonoscopy is one of our best tools to screen for and prevent cancer – accurate, reliable and efficient.
Are you wondering if you need to fast before your blood draw? Well, the answer may be No, and here are a few reasons why…
Many Americans take a dietary supplement, multivitamin, or herb on a regular basis or at least a few times per year. I take a few myself!
You want to be sure that supplements contain the actual ingredients stated on the label!
Did you know that a digital rectal exam (DRE) is no longer a part of a routine physical? Research shows this is not as helpful as we once thought it to be for screening for prostate cancer.
Gardening is a new hobby of mine, but I have always loved yard work. As silly as it may seem, even going outside to pull weeds in my front yardscape makes me feel better because it allows me to pause and just be outside with my plants.
The pandemic had a cascade (or should I say landslide?) of effects on our lives. One of the impacts that we’ve noticed as physicians is that many people missed their annual physicals.