How to decide what to do and what not to do for your health. Because we are constantly facing health decisions and marketing experts hope that we make one choice over another. A personal health strategy will make health decisions easier. It’s tough enough making decisions about our health but it’s even tougher when you’re […]
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Preventing Cancer
As a Primary Care practice, we focus on preventing disease over treating it. An example we use is that regular oil changes on a car will preserve the drive train and make eventual repairs easier and less costly. Preventing cancer is similar in the human body. Leading Causes of Cancer We know that inflammation, genetic […]
Hello, Dr. Mo here with Digital Nomad Health. When I used to work at Kaiser Permanente, primary care was a health screening business where patients were fed into specialty groups, and documentation determined how much Medicare would reimburse KP. Not much has changed. That is why direct pay models are essential to ensure patient health. […]
Here at Digital Nomad Health, we believe in a bright future for healthcare. Many aspects of US healthcare are moving in the right direction, but corporate greed and biased regulations are also in the mix. The savvy consumer can plan for future healthcare costs in the US. The biggest expenses a person will experience when […]
Healthcare is complicated enough, and here you have a doctor discussing inflammatory markers. But, hear us out; such markers can be used as a guide to direct your focus on health. Overoptimizing Anytime a patient asks if they should have a lower homocysteine or if a CRP of 1.1 is still okay, we redirect the […]
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Living With Lupus
Lupus is an autoimmune condition that can be tough to diagnose since the symptoms often present vaguely. Fortunately, Rheumatologists are quite familiar with this condition and can offer life-changing treatments for it. One of the most important things we do here at Digital Nomad Health is to educate and empower our patients regarding their health. […]
The field of medicine is in constant flux with an expiration date on clinical facts. A physician practicing primary care medicine would ideally have a knowledge turnover every 5 years. This evidence-based practice of medicine is hard to implement in mainstream clinical settings. We’ll discuss how we approach evidence-based medicine in primary care for our […]
Sleep apnea is a complex disease, but the treatment of it is relatively straightforward. Most cases are the instructive type, and some are the central type. Sleep apnea testing can be done at home, and there are even easier methods of diagnosing this condition. Diagnosing Sleep Apnea It’s always best to see a Sleep Physician […]
Our patients elect to have colon cancer screening to avoid death – not just death from cancer but what medicine refers to as all-cause mortality. If colon cancer screening catches a patient’s colon cancer early or the colonoscopist removes a polyp, which perhaps would have turned into colon cancer, the idea is that this person […]