Articles about Primary Care
Medicare payments totaled $705.9 billion in 2017, up 4.2% from the previous year and accounting for 20% of the total federal spending budget for that year alone, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. AARP reported that 44 million Americans are currently enrolled in Medicare, and, by 2030, that number could reach 79 […]
First you notice the TV is turned up just a little too loud. Then you notice you are having to constantly repeat yourself. And then you realize your loved one is reducing his or her time talking to family and friends. It might be a hard conversation to have, but when your relationship with a […]
You know when you board an airplane and flight attendants go through the safety regulations just before you take off? They remind all the passengers that if oxygen is needed, due to a loss in cabin pressure, the oxygen masks will deploy from the overhead bin and to be sure to obtain oxygen for yourself […]
“Water, water everywhere … nor any drop to drink,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote. The poet could have been thinking of the Lowcountry when he penned those words. That’s just what the situation would be here in the wake of a disaster such as a major hurricane. Even surrounded by rivers and the Atlantic Ocean, without […]
To get the flu shot or not get the flu shot? According to doctors throughout the Lowcountry, the answer is always a resounding yes! This season the entire country suffered through an unprecedented number of flu cases, causing concerns and drawing parallels to the global influenza pandemic in 1918. With so many questions, we decided […]
There are many ways of labeling that trusted physician we all see with just about every little ache or pain we can’t vanquish with time or over-the-counter nostrums – primary doctor; primary care doctor; family doctor. And there are nearly as many sports analogies to describe this multitalented first responder to the ailments and disorders […]