How A Direct Primary Care Membership Can Reduce Healthcare Expense
When considering why healthcare is so expensive, there is, unfortunately, no straightforward answer that will likely satisfy. Healthcare by its nature is a complex and multifaceted industry with many factors contributing to its high cost, including: Technology:...
What Nature Can Teach Us
Last weekend as I nervously assessed my garden for signs of life, certain a few plants had fallen prey to the cold spell we endured this past winter, I was struck with a familiar feeling—a feeling of hope tempered with acceptance. When I grasped each twig, I hoped to...
Redirecting Our Minds to the Present Moment
A few years back, when I first began taking yoga, an instructor (yogi Jess @ Blue Ridge Studio) shared with me how the purpose of yoga was to get out of our heads and into our bodies. It took a minute to sink in, but it made perfect sense when I truly grasped the...
Our Cover Issue of Everything Knoxville – April 2023
We've been featured on the cover of Everything Knoxville's April 2023 issue! Our article dives into the most important elements of healthcare: Access, time, and connection. You can check it out by clicking this link.
Our Everything Knoxville Article
In Everything Knoxville's March 2023 issue, Melissa Major gets candid about MBody Healthcare's role in the American healthcare system as a DPC practice. She also discusses realizations she has made in the practice's first year of operation. "Good insurance does not...
Get Outside. Your Health Depends On It
Few would argue that our country's healthcare system is broken. Most have obtained this perspective as a patient, subject to an increased lack of access and dwindling visit time with their doctors amid rising out-of-pocket costs. But others have gained perspective...
Meet Melissa Major
Melissa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. When you’ve been a professional in an industry for long enough, you’ll experience moments when the entire field takes a U-Turn, an instance where the consensus completely flips...
Why Time Matters
When Ann first walked into our clinic, she had no outward signs of the imminent danger she was facing. I invited her into my office and reviewed her medical history and medications. It immediately caught my attention that she was on three blood pressure medications...
The Privilege of Time
When most of us think of war casualties, we envision a battlefield comprised of rising smoke and strewn bodies across a tattered landscape. Perhaps an image of a veteran in a wheelchair with obvious external ramifications in the form of amputation would come to mind....
Lend an Ear
Most of us have a conditioned behavior in conversation to say what we are thinking impulsively. Oblivious of the timing or the other person talking. At best, we wait until they are done talking to recite what we have been politely waiting to say, perhaps like me,...