David M Foy MD
Asheville, NC:
Save Time and Money with Walk-In Primary Care
Avoid racking up medical bills at the emergency room, or long waits and higher copays at urgent care facilities.
Choosing Care: How a Primary Care Provider Improves Health and Wellness
How to select a primary care provider can be difficult. See 6 things that could help you decide.
Why direct primary care is the future
For myself, as a patient, direct primary care is a great stride forward.
How to find the right primary care doctor
Have you moved, started a new job or switched insurance plans? Did your doctor retire? Whatever reasons you have for looking for a new primary care physician, the search can
How direct primary care reduces the costs of care
The days of using your insurance to see the family doctor are numbered.
Looking back at how primary care has changed
It is almost impossible for me to believe that my views on primary care in the United States have changed so radically in fifty years.
Why we need to build bridges between primary care and anesthesiology
We need to undertake a major remapping of the pathway for surgical/procedural care, as it currently exists in most health systems.
What Should I Ask My Primary Care Physician?
How Your Primary Care Doctor Can Help with Your Heart Health
When you come down with a cold, you can count on your primary care physician to be there for you. But did you know your PCP can also care for your heart?
Why College Students Need a Primary Care Doctor
College students need a doctor who can get to know their health history and who will become the go-to physician when it comes to annual testing and blood work, health questions, vaccinations, prescription medications or referrals to a specialist.
Why I'm Becoming a Primary-Care Doctor
The U.S. has a shortage of family physicians, but many med students avoid the specialty, stigmatizing it as uninteresting.
How PCPs can drive the future of primary care
In a year when healthcare has been significantly disrupted, independent primary care providers are often leading the disruption. Providers with a more entrepreneurial spirit, including those not affiliated with a hospital or health system, have created shifts in the industry or taken innovative steps to meet patients where they are.
How to Reduce Anxiety and Burnout at Primary Care Practices
Change such as the adoption of new information technology can wreak havoc among primary care practice staff members.
How to Build Successful Virtual Primary Care Services
The essential elements of providing primary care to patients via telemedicine include an affordable financial model and exceptional patient experience.
Why Even the Healthy Need a Primary Care Doctor
A primary care doctor isn't only for when you're sick. Even folks who are generally healthy need a doctor who can help them stay that way.
Zika: What do Primary Care Doctors Need to Know?
The Zika story is evolving very fast. What do primary care doctors need to know? How can they keep up? Right now medicines are being tested, vaccines are...
Why Medicaid patients use the emergency department for primary care
Expanding insurance without expanding the primary care infrastructure drives more patients to the emergency department.
Why do I need a primary care physician?—I’m never sick
“Why do I need a primary care physician—I’m never sick” is a great misconception. In fact, people who receive primary care have fewer preventable ER visits and hospital admissions.
How to stop losing primary care physicians to burnout
We can’t continue to invest in building a primary care provider workforce only to lose us to burnout.
How to Choose a Primary Care Physician (PCP)
Many Medicare recipients choose health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for their health insurance. 63.4% of Medicare Advantage recipients have HMO plans, as do many people with Original Medicare. If you’re not sure what kind of plan you have, check out HealthMarkets Insurance Agency’s descriptions of common insurance terms for a brief overview.
Why this primary care physician still rounds at the hospital
The inconvenience of coming to the hospital is exhausting. Although, the look on a sick patient’s face when a familiar caregiver arrives to take charge and help them through the rough spots is still worth the trouble.
