As a provider, I hope the shift of medicine continues to move to a more proactive approach on both sides of the SDM equation. Changes in healthcare structure and systems take time. Time that you, the patient, do not need to waste. You can start practicing proactive medicine on your half of the SDM equation now.

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Providers are well educated on human anatomy and can identify areas by just looking at a patient. But now, we have the ability to directly visualize areas of concentration with use of portable ultrasound machines. There are several…