Posts Tagged ‘health care’

Direct Primary Care: The Key to a Better Patient Experience?

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Direct Primary Care scientist in a lab

While booking an appointment with the doctor two days prior and hardly getting 10 minutes per appointment, you may end up feeling like a better patient experience is the last thing they care about. It is more likely to be true than false as the one thing all these big corporations care about is money. Luckily, now we are not bound to the traditional healthcare systems and corporate hospitals. A relatively new healthcare model is introduced Direct Primary Care.

In this post, we will examine how direct primary care prioritizes the patient experience and health.

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Do Black Americans Receive Equality in Health Care?

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Black Doctor
Black Doctor

Different studies have been focusing on how racism has affected the health industry in the United States all over the years.

Will this term, under President Barack Obama pose positive changes, given that he is the first black president?

We have to remember American history to examine the trends of racism and how it affected the health industry of the United States.

The United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget, define race as self-identification of a person or group of persons as a result of physical characteristics, geographic location and ancestry. Race has been used interchangeably with ethnicity, which refers to a larger categorization which includes the language, diet, religion and political factors.

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