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The Common Cold: Symptoms and Remedies

The Common Cold: Symptoms and Remedies

Transcriptions Dr. Sanders: Hi, Dr. Sanders of Voyage Direct Primary Care. Today I wanted to talk about colds. It's cold season right now, it's in the middle of February, and we've got a lot of people out there with runny noses and congestion and sore throats and all...

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Why health insurance ≠ health care

Why health insurance ≠ health care

“My insurance company is so great! I just love calling them to get my medical bills paid for,” said no patient ever. Why health insurance doesn’t help you Have you ever wondered why, out of all the different areas in the service industry, health insurance is both the...

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Add a Doctor to Your Family

Add a Doctor to Your Family

This picture was taken during John's third year of residency. Our family was living in Jacksonville, FL, and during that year—not too long before this picture was taken, actually—I contracted appendicitis and had to have my appendix out. Elijah was 10 months old. If...

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Influenza is here 2019

Influenza is here 2019

WINTER 2019 INFLUENZA                                                                                                                                        Influenza is in full force this winter.  I've already seen it tear through one of our families.  Their...

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Fight Night and Traumatic Brain Injuries

Fight Night and Traumatic Brain Injuries

“FIGHT NIGHT” Let’s talk about it. You only get one brain and it’s darn valuable. Some high schoolers in my area have been having “fight nights.” They put on boxing gloves and throw haymakers until someone gets knocked out. They create a mob-mentality with all the...

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The Power of Cooperative Movements

The Power of Cooperative Movements

Hikers without a Trail Several years, I found myself stranded in the middle of a 480-foot, exposed slickrock "trail" with my wife, four young kids and only a flashlight and a headlamp between the six of us. Oh, did I mention it was midnight? Well, it was. And there we...

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Physician burnout and what to do about it

Physician burnout and what to do about it

Universal healthcare you say.... let me give you some history as a physician. Several years back, the government rolled out a plan designed to incentivize physicians to get electronic health records (EHR). They offered to subsidize the cost of an EHR if the physician...

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Psoas, Piriformis, and Pec Stretches

Transcription: Dr. Sanders: Dr. Sanders of Voyage Direct Primary Care here to talk about a couple of muscle groups that are important to stretch. Number one is your pecs. Pecs affects your posture a lot. Our pec muscles are these muscles here, they move our shoulders...

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What is Membership Medicine?

Transcription Dr. Sanders: Hi, Dr. Sanders of Voyage Direct Primary Care. Today I'm discussing, what is membership medicine? Voyage Direct Primary Care offers a subscription family medical service, it's kind of like the Netflix of medicine. It's a reasonable,...

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