Prevention, given the time it actually requires.
A 2022 study found that delivering every guideline-recommended preventive service to a standard panel of 2,500 patients would take a primary care physician 26.7 hours a day. It's not that doctors don't care about prevention — the traditional system simply doesn't give it the time it needs. At Metronome, a much smaller panel means that time actually exists.
What Preventive Visits Include
A real preventive visit is more than a quick checklist. It's an unhurried look at your whole health picture — updated as your risk factors, age, and life stage change.
Comprehensive Annual Physical
Full history review, physical exam, and a real conversation about what's changed since your last visit — not a rushed 15-minute check-box appointment.
Personalized Screening Schedule
Your screening plan is built around your actual age, sex, family history, and risk factors — not a generic template applied to everyone on the panel.
Time to Actually Discuss Results
Lab and imaging results are reviewed together, in context, with enough time to ask questions and plan next steps — not a portal message with no follow-up.
Guideline-Based Screening, Tracked Over Time
Cancer screening only works if it actually happens on schedule. We track your screening history and due dates directly, and make the referral or order ourselves rather than leaving it to a portal reminder.
Screening plans are individualized based on age, sex, family history, and personal risk — including earlier or more frequent screening when your history calls for it.
Catching Risk Before It Becomes a Diagnosis
Heart disease and metabolic disease develop quietly, years before a first event or diagnosis. We track blood pressure, lipid panels, A1c, and weight trends over time — not just as a single snapshot at one visit.
When risk factors are borderline, we have the time to dig deeper: advanced lipid testing, coronary calcium scoring, or a closer look at metabolic syndrome — and to actually manage the plan that follows.
Why Preventive Care Gets Skipped
A widely cited 2022 study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine put an actual number on the problem — and it explains a lot about why preventive care so often falls through the cracks.
The time a primary care physician would need every single day to deliver fully guideline-recommended preventive, chronic, and acute care to a standard panel of 2,500 patients — with no time left for documentation until it's added in below.
Team-based support helps — but it still assumes a 2,500-patient panel. Metronome's panel is capped at up to 600 patients, roughly a quarter that size, which is what actually makes guideline-recommended preventive care deliverable in real time, by the physician you know, rather than triaged away or left for the next annual visit.
Source: Porter J, et al. "Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2022. Read the study →
Prevention Doesn't Stand Alone
Prevention Deserves the Time It Takes
Start with a conversation about your health history, your risk factors, and a screening plan built around you — not a template.
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