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Urgent care
Urgent care clinics first opened in the 1970s with a narrow mission: address patient needs that happen when a primary care practice is closed. Otherwise, go to your traditional primary care physician, who could fit you in immediately and had the time to treat what is ailing you.  Since then
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Doctor-patient relationship in primary care
One of the primary benefits of regularly scheduled primary care visits is that patients have an opportunity to build a long-term relationship with their physicians. A doctor-patient relationship in primary care can be a significant benefit to your health. The better your doctor knows you and your care concerns, the
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Primary care improves health outcomes for families. In part, that’s because a primary care physician can help keep your family on a great wellness track. It’s also because primary care providers get to know you over time–and this means they can often identify potential issues at the earliest stages. Direct
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Annual physical
An annual exam is one of the most common–and most important–services that primary care physicians provide. In fact, when you think of “primary care” an annual wellness visit is probably the first thing you picture! During this routine appointment, your primary care physician will assess your health, address any chronic
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Direct primary care patients
One of the primary missions of primary care is to manage your overall health and wellness–and by doing so prevent larger issues from developing down the road. This type of preventive care can include managing current conditions, helping you balance your diet and exercise, and keeping detailed records of your
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Preventive Care
There’s a significant–and growing–body of scientific literature that supports one simple idea: patients who receive preventive care tend to have better health outcomes over a longer period of time.  However, the quality of that primary care can have a significant impact on just how pronounced those improved outcomes might be.
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difference
When you get sick or need a checkup, you probably make an appointment to go see a doctor. But sometimes, the “doctor” you see isn’t really a doctor at all.  If you go to your neighborhood clinic or an urgent care clinic, for example, you may be seeing a Nurse
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Direct primary care patients
Direct primary care (DPC) patients have the opportunity to spend more time with their doctors, communicate more regularly about their healthcare, and avoid the interference of profit-minded insurance companies. Patients at DPC clinics enjoy significant health and wellness benefits and tend to have more access to primary care in general. 
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Direct primary care patients
Health insurance is supposed to enable patients to more easily access healthcare. But that’s not always the way it works in practice. For many Americans, health insurance policies can run counter to your primary care doctor’s recommendations, creating an impasse that can impact your overall care. That’s not the case
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Primary care costs
Maybe you have a sore throat. You’d like to know if it’s strep throat or not, but office visits under your insurance plan can be prohibitively expensive, so you decide to give it another day (or two). These kinds of decisions happen all the time. In fact, you’re probably used
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Traditional primary care
Knowing the differences between direct primary care and traditional primary care can help you choose which option might be better for you and for your health. While selecting a care type may seem simple, this single healthcare decision can have far reaching implications, as primary care is one of the
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Do You Need A Primary Care Physician?
You’re young, you feel good, and you seem healthy. Everything’s in working order, it seems–so do you really need a primary care physician? After all, these days your visits feel very routine and they all end the same way: your primary care doctor says things are looking good!  It might
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Primary care doctor
In some ways, medicine is more powerful and more accessible than ever. If you have a sore throat or a runny nose, you can swing by any number of walk-in or urgent care clinics and receive speedy treatment. But there are some drawbacks to seeking out medical care only when
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Direct primary care costs
For most patients, there’s no getting around the fact that cost is a significant factor when weighing healthcare choices. That’s one of the reasons that membership-based primary care options have become quite popular.  Direct primary care and concierge medicine are often lumped together because they both operate under that kind
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Dietary Supplements
When you were a child, you might have eaten those (somehow delicious) Flintstones Vitamins. They were chalky and tangy, and they were probably good for you. This was probably your first exposure to dietary supplements--this case, in the form of a multivitamin.  We’re used to the idea of taking dietary
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We all want to be healthy. For good reason! Whether you’re a teen or a senior, nutrition is one of the foundations of long term wellness. While a healthy lifestyle comes pretty easily for some people, most of us struggle from time to time. That’s why building good nutritional habits
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Maybe you have a sore throat. You’d like to know if it’s strep throat or not, but office visits under your insurance plan can be prohibitively expensive, so you decide to give it another day (or two). These kinds of decisions happen all the time. In fact, you’re probably used
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As a direct primary care practice, Progressive Health Primary Care will never bill your insurance company. That’s because nearly all of your healthcare services with Progressive Health will be covered by your monthly membership fee. As a result, it’s your doctor--not your insurance company--who guides your care. But does that
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How to Get Better Quality Sleep
Your body needs sleep. The funny thing about our busy lifestyles is that we’re often tricked into thinking a good night’s sleep is a luxury--something you do when you have the time. And you can come up with all kinds of reasons not to sleep: you’re too busy with work,
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Exercise at Home
Your local gym likely has no shortage of equipment: stair machines, rowers, bench presses, free weights, treadmills, ellipticals--you name it. But the truth is that you don’t actually need all of that gear just to work up a sweat. In fact, you can easily and effectively exercise at home. And
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Travel Medicine
Travel adventures are supposed to take place on the streets of Paris, not in the narrows of your intestinal tract! Ensuring that your trip abroad is safe, healthy, and fun falls under the umbrella of “travel medicine.” This medical speciality can help you anticipate health hazards and avoid potential unwanted
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