Trajectory LLC Uncovers Healthcare Marketing Insights Revealing How Women Feel About Their Primary Care Physician Relationships

Trajectory LLC, creating new customer value and igniting new business growth across healthcare, well-being and healthy lifestyle industries, conducted a qualitative survey among its proprietary, HerView™ database to uncover healthcare marketing insights about how women feel about their primary care physician relationships.
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Principal Medical Group Provides New Analysis of Statistics Showing Correlation Between Primary Care and Health Outcomes

I’m not surprised by the correlation between emergency room and primary care visits. As a primary care physician, I know just how important preventative healthcare is to keeping patients out of the hospital, said Dr. David J. Jones, a primary care physician and internal medicine specialist at Principal Medical Group, a concierge medicine practice in [...]

Regular Exercise Reduces Mortality

OK, so we all know exercise is good for us. But how good? A healthy heart can protect us from heart attacks, but what about affecting our risk for diabetes or cancer?
The measurable benefits will help us all not only live longer, but also better.
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AAPP’s Dr. Baskin in the news

Oregon requires concierge physicians to register with insurance department
Oregon physicians who work as concierge or retainer-based doctors are now required to register their practices with the state’s insurance department.
The rule took effect Jan. 1, but there is no deadline or fee for physicians to register.
Oregon is at least the second state to approve a registration [...]

AAPP’s Tom Blue and Dr. James Slater in the news

Doctors introducing more personal care
To Dr. Neil Smerling and his colleagues at Primary Care Physicians in Fairfield, practicing primary care medicine in today’s environment is getting tougher all the time.

“Over the last 20 years, it’s gotten more and more like a treadmill where someone keeps turning up the speed,” said Smerling, a senior partner at [...]

Growing number of ‘concierge’ doctors offer personalized care, access for annual fees

CHICAGO — Mary Lou Rothman has her doctor’s email and cellphone number, with permission to call day or night.
When she recently came down with a stomachache, she called the office and got an appointment within three hours.
When the stomachache turned out to be appendicitis, her doctor, Marcy Zwelling, went to the hospital with her and [...]

Concierge Medicine: Changing the Future of Primary Care for Better or for Worse?

Visiting the doctor’s office may not top the list of favorite activities for most consumers, but eliminating common stressors such as juggling one’s schedule to squeeze in an appointment, spending too much time in the waiting room, and then maybe seeing the physician for only a few minutes, can make the experience much more pleasant…
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Doctor First to Establish Concierge Medical Practice in The Woodlands

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — John C. Rogers, MD, has recently transitioned his Woodlands-based family medical practice of over 20 years into a concierge medical care practice called My Own MD. He is the first physician to create a concierge-style practice in The Woodlands.
Offering a higher level of personalized medical care, concierge patients have the exclusive [...]

AAPP’s Tom Blue in the News

Doctors Living on Loans
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Government-backed loans to doctors have surged more than 10-fold in the past decade, a trend industry insiders say is a red flag that doctors in America are in financial distress.
From 2000 to 2011, Small Business Administration loans to physicians’ offices, including private practice doctors and mental health specialists, [...]

AAPP’s Dr. Marc Tanenbaum in the news

Doctor Makes House Calls
During a break from house calls the other day, Dr. Marc Tanenbaum talked about the joys of being able to tend to his young patients without the constraints of managed care. Or the constraints of a traditional office.
Dr. Marc Tanenbaum sees about 50 families, caring for patients from birth through the college [...]