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Month: January 2018

Op-ed: U.S. News is wrong about what constitutes the best diet

January 29, 2018 mbmccoll Leave a comment

Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz strike back on what constitutes the best diet.  Can you guess what they said? In…

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$200? $400? $600? How much did our patients save?

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This week Trinity Direct Primary Care enrolled with RubiconMD.  They offer econsults for primary care doctors in a multitude of…

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Certified or certifiable? Either way, I am.

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Good news! I recently recertified in my two specialties of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics from The National Board of Physicians…

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Keto-adaptation

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Like any new routine, your body requires a little bit of time to adjust to a change in your diet. …

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Boom, another round of savings

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We’re pretty excited about this one.  By working directly with our lab vendor we have been able to secure a…

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Working Americans are using less health care, but spending more – The Washington Post

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The rising cost of basic healthcare is astounding. Trinity Direct Primary Care stands in sharp relief to this unsettling trend.…

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Cancer's drug of choice is sugar

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A collaborative effort over nearly a decade has shed more light on how cancer fuels its rapid growth and proliferation. …

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Radiologists follow FedEx with flat-rate prices. Is this the future of health care?

January 20, 2018 mbmccoll Leave a comment

Indianapolis based radiology group, Northwest Radiology, began offering a price ceiling for their tests based on modality and not body…

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Coverage doesn't equal care

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Keith Smith, MD, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, a free-market, no insurance major surgery center, writes in his…

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Article: New patient-centered model, Direct Primary Care, is spreading

January 17, 2018 mbmccoll 2 Comments

DPC physician, Dr. Molly Rutherford, writes in her op-ed piece “we physicians in the Direct Care movement are proving daily…

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