July 2020 - Elite Care Family Medicine

Living with a chronic illness is hard on patients and their families. Managing a chronic condition is especially difficult when you must travel out of town to receive care from a specialist. The good news is, your local primary care provider can help cut down the number of trips to the specialist by coordinating with them to provide treatment. How Your Local Primary Care Provider Can Help Manage Your Chronic Condition Your primary care provider doesn’t replace...

Fake news is a term we hear quite often these days for good reason. Even the most prominent news media sources have been caught sharing less than accurate information. Unfortunately for the healthcare community, many fake news stories are health-related and lead to a number of issues for providers and patients alike. Why? Because fake news has staying power long after the story has been debunked. Fake Health News is Dangerous and Sharing It Makes You Part of the...

Summer is everyone’s favorite time for self-care. We go on vacations, hit the gym, eat our fruits and veggies, get manis and pedis, use all the new skincare products, and soak in our bathtubs every chance we get. If a self-care expert tells us to try it, we do it all without hesitation...except for one thing.  When it comes to visiting our healthcare provider many of us look for any excuse not to go. For one reason or another, medical care isn’t a top...

Botulinum toxin type A, better known as simply Botox, is well-known as an effective way to treat the signs of aging. But his popular cosmetic enhancer isn’t just used to make patients look younger. It’s also a powerful treatment for a number of medical conditions.  Chronic Migraines In 1992, Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon Dr. William Binder discovered a new migraine treatment after several patients noted fewer headaches following a Botox injection. The...