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Comprehensive Care Close to Home Call today for more information: 316-962-2250. wichita.edu/pediatrics KU Wichita Pediatrics has the region's largest academic pediatric specialty health care team. • Ambulatory Pediatrics • Child Abuse & Neglect • Critical Care • Developmental & Behavioral Genetics • Hematology & Oncology • Hospital Medicine • Infectious Disease • Neonatology • Newborn Medicine • Pediatric Pulmonary Together for Kansas Children. Forever. MILLENNIALS' UNSTEADY APPROACH TO HARMONY HEALTHCARE IT SURVEYED APPROXIMATELY 2,000 MILLENNIALS AGES 23–38. THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THE YOUNGER SET IS CHARTING A SOMETIMES PERILOUS MEDICAL PATH. T H E H E A LT H D ATA ma na gement firm learned: + The propensity to ignore health concerns does not discriminate by age. Almost half of respondents said they were delaying addressing a health issue. + Those delays can drag on. More than 40% with an untreated condition acknowledged putting off dealing with it for more than one year. + Established relationships with primary care providers are not a g iven. About 1 in 4 millennia ls has no primary care physician, and almost 2 in 5 with a PCP have had the relationship less than a year. + Family matters. A lmost a third of respondent s w it h PCPs chose them based on referra ls by family members — about the same as the number who had done so via insur- ance portals and significantly more than had selected providers based on online reviews. + "Routine physicals" aren't. One- fourth of respondents went without a physical for five years or longer, and a third had not had one in the past year. That flies in the face of the established benefits of regular care. "There is clear evidence that people who get sufficient incremental care enjoy better prevention, ea rlier diag nosis and management of urgent conditions, bet ter control of chronic i l lnesses, a nd longer life spa ns," surgeon a nd author Atul Gawa nde, MD, noted in a 2017 CNBC report. n Health Care BY STEVE BARRETT 059990058_PM2.indd 1 11/8/19 6:48 AM M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S G R E AT E R K A N S A S ■ 2 019/ 2 0 2 0 P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ❰❰❰❰❰ 17