The following article details how medical house calls are beneficial to elderly patients, allowing for more attention by the doctor and for medical needs to be addressed before there is a full-blown health crisis.
Further, house calls may reduce the individual health care costs, as well as total government health care spending.
Read Jeff Guo’s article, One Doctor’s Old-fashioned Idea to Cut Health Care Spending (Wash. Post, 6 Nov. 2014) to learn more.