If You Can’t Find a Primary Care Doctor for Your Busy Schedule, You Should Consider This Solution

If you’re in between primary care doctors, the road to finding a new physician can seem like a long one–and, depending on how you go about your search, it can be. With increasing patient complaints about long appointment wait times, short facetime with physicians, and treatment plans that do little to attack the root cause of illness, it’s important to be cautious in your search for a great physician. If you’re aiming to take control of your health and work toward long-term wellness, it’s crucial to find a physician who’s available, attentive, and committed to being your biggest health advocate. What can you do to find that doctor, even if your schedule is jam-packed? Let’s get into it.

Go for a Functional Approach

If long-term wellness is your goal, it’s important to work with a physician whose approach to treatment is about more than just minimizing symptoms. Functional medicine is a type of care that aims to address the root cause of symptoms, providing holistic solutions that promote whole-body wellness. Functional medicine doesn’t just seek to lessen pain or mitigate discomfort; it’s about investigating why that pain and discomfort are happening in the first place, then treating those underlying causes so that you’re not stuck with the same on-and-off symptoms indefinitely.

Why is functional medicine a great treatment option to look into if you have a busy schedule? Because the goal of functional medicine is to meaningfully and sustainably improve your overall health over time, minimizing your need for medication and treatment. By working with your physician to craft a long-term wellness plan, you’ll be setting yourself up to achieve your best health in the long term.

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Look for a Smart Practice

When we say smart, what we mean in this instance is automated. Too many medical practices are still bogged down by endless paperwork (much of which patients have to fill out when they show up for their medical visits, instead of getting it out of the way ahead of time). This approach places a larger strain on a practice’s administrative staff when it comes to digitizing, filing, and searching through documentation. It also means patients are spending time filling out paperwork in waiting rooms that could otherwise be spent anywhere else.

Instead, we recommend looking into a primary care physician whose practice has adopted a paperless (or as close to paperless as possible) approach to intake forms. If you’re able to fill out all of your intake paperwork before you even arrive at the doctor’s office, your visit is likely to be much more efficient. Paperwork is automatically filed electronically, allowing the practice to operate much more efficiently (and hopefully allowing you to have more facetime with your physician during your appointment window).

Opt for a Concierge Plan

If you want to maximize your physician’s attentiveness while minimizing wasted time, few models of treatment are more compatible with your needs than a concierge approach. Concierge medicine is a relationship-based approach to patient care. It gives the patient round-the-clock access to their physician via email, phone, and text. It allows you to have priority appointment booking. Even better, it gives your physician continuous access to your most up-to-date medical information, which means they never have to “catch up” on your chart 5 minutes before seeing you in their office. Concierge medicine allows you and your physician to collaborate on a treatment plan that takes your unique health profile and goals into consideration–and, more importantly, that evolves as you do so that you’re always working to achieve your best health, no matter what that means to you (or how that meaning changes).

Finding a primary care doctor whose services are well-suited to your busy schedule isn’t always easy, but it is completely possible if you understand which qualities to look for. If you’re interested in learning more about the benefits of concierge medicine, don’t hesitate to contact us by clicking here.

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