Direct Primary Care and Lifestyle Medicine: Alex Sommers’ Prescription for Employer Health Plans
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Dr. Alex Sommers discusses the complexities of the U.S. healthcare system and his innovative approach to primary care.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Uprising Show, we sit down with Dr. Alex Sommers, Founder, President, and Medical Director of Astia Health and a former ER physician, for an unfiltered look at why the U.S. healthcare system is so complicated and who benefits from that complexity. Dr. Sommers shares his personal journey from feeling “complicit in the wrongdoing” inside hospital systems to building a new care model centered on advanced primary care, trust, and whole-person health. We dis...
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Guest: Dr. Alex Sommers
Topics covered
- Direct Primary Care
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Employer Health Plans
- Healthcare System Complexity
- Whole-Person Health
Keywords
- healthcare
- primary care
- lifestyle medicine
- employer health plans
- whole-person health
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Organizations: Astia Health
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