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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. Susan knew she needed to lose weight, especially when her doctor told her that her A1C indicated that she was prediabetic.

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Doctor Marketing: How to Integrate Doctors Into Your Marketing Programs

Healthcare Success

Doctors are central to the success of virtually every multi-location healthcare practice and health system we work with. Moreover, today’s doctor partners have strong opinions about marketing and growing their locations within the larger business. Do your doctors look, sound, and feel like they are a part of your organization?

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The Battle Between Primary Care and Time: The Doctors are Losing

MedCity News

With most doctors spending less than 15 to 20 minutes with their patients per visit, there is not much time for fact-finding, let alone education for the doctor to learn what preventive screening resources are available for their patients, even if that care is reimbursable by Medicare/Medicaid, such as a lung cancer screening.

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How to Distribute Content to Doctors (Plus, 7 Tips on Email Marketing to Doctors)

Healthcare Success

Welcome to step four of our “Marketing to Doctors” blog series. market their products and services directly to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals. Invest in Email Marketing to Doctors. Doctors are extremely busy. Why email marketing to doctors? Text versus branded HTML.

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Fostering Better Communication Between COPD Patients and their Doctors—And Why It’s Critical

PM360

Patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need help having earlier, more honest, and more effective conversations with their doctors about their illness. That insight and others came from a Phreesia survey that collected responses from 1,994 COPD patients as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments.

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The debate on DTC marketing is going to heat up again

World of DTC Marketing

Today, people don’t see a DTC TV ad and run to their doctor to ask for an Rx. 93% go online to learn more and educate themselves about the product or health condition. Still, the gatekeeper continues to be their doctor. Patients trust doctors to recommend drugs that will help them treat chronic health issues.

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DTC Review: Nucala

World of DTC Marketing

It seems the website is trying to Bothe educate patients about severe asthma and Nucala, which isn’t a bad thing, but why use TV for such a small group of patients? For example, an interactive ad that allows asthma sufferers to take a quick quiz via the ad could be a great way to educate patients and bring them into the brand.