Physicians Practice November 29, 2022
To lessen the strain on our emergency medical systems, we need to amplify our focus on preventive medicine. Home-based health tools and applications, and screening solutions can help us do that.
The post-Covid healthcare crisis is upon us, with gaps in preventive care in 2020 morphing into full-blown chronic diseases in 2022, putting the 60% of Americans who live with at least one chronic health condition at higher risk for adverse events.
Meanwhile, physician shortages — driven largely by clinical burnout — have left community hospitals without the staff to attend to patients who need critical, often lifesaving, care. As a physician working in a small critical access hospital in North Dakota, I never imagined we’d be so understaffed to...