Dr. Jamie Qualls is a Family Medicine Doctor in Farmington Hills, Michigan

Shout out to Dr. Jamie Qualls, family physician and frontline healthcare worker. 👩🏼‍⚕️

Dr. Jamie has been helping us serve patients at our Plum Health DPC office in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

She is diligent, caring, and an excellent physician - we're lucky to have her serving and healing patients in our broader community. 🏥

Thank you Dr. Qualls for all that you do, and in helping us deliver affordable and accessible care in Detroit and beyond. 💉 💊 🌱

Jamie Qualls, DO is a trusted family medicine doctor in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She operates Plum Health DPC - Farmington and is accepting new patients.

Jamie Qualls, DO, MPH is both a family medicine physician and a master of public health. She is able to take care of patients individually and the greater community with her additional training. She is passionate about forming strong relationships with her patients. Her clinical interests include community and public health, chronic disease prevention and reversal using a food as medicine approach, LGBTQ-friendly medicine, and osteopathic manipulative medicine for chronic musculoskeletal issues. She is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency training at Ascension Providence Hospital.

Thanks for reading,

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Plum Health DPC

Dr. Jamie Qualls is Changing the Game for Primary Care in Farmington Hills

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a family medicine doctor taking care of patients in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She started practicing with Plum Health DPC in July 2020 and she has already created some excellent health care experiences for her patients.

She uses a membership model for health care, also known as the direct primary care model, to make health care affordable and accessible for her patients. This allows her to spend more time with each of her patients and it allows her to use that time to come up with the best possible treatment plans for her patients.

Dr. Jamie Qualls often takes a wholistic approach to patient care, incorporating dietary recommendations to help her patients achieve their desired health goals. You can meet with Dr. Jamie Qualls and learn more about her approach by scheduling a consultation, here:

Dr. Qualls focuses on delivering not only excellent health care, but also an excellent health care experience. Here’s what one of Dr. Jamie Qualls patients had to say about their experience at Plum Health DPC in Farmington Hills, MI:

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a family medicine doctor in Farmington Hills Michigan. She uses a membership model for health care, also known as the direct primary care model, to make health care affordable and accessible for her patients.

Men's Health in Detroit

Men’s Health in Detroit

There are a number of preventive services that men need to stay healthy as they age. Basic items include annual flu shots and annual blood work to check for cholesterol levels. Checking your blood pressure, height, and weight is also important to screen for hypertension and obesity.

As men age, more complex screening tests are needed. For example, at age 50, men need a Colonoscopy to check for colon cancer. Men who smoke require an ultrasound of the abdominal aorta to rule out an aortic aneurysm at age 65. Men who smoke the equivalent of 1 pack per day for 20 years would benefit from a CT scan of the lungs to rule out lung cancer starting at age 50. From the United States Preventive Services Task Force:

The USPSTF recommends annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in adults ages 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years.

If you’d like us to help you coordinate these tests by becoming your primary care doctor, you can sign up on our website, here.

Men’s Health Event in Detroit

On the note of preventive service, this weekend, the MIU Men’s Health Foundation is providing an opportunity to do check some of these screening tests off of your list. This Saturday, September 26th, the foundation is hosting its 10th annual Men’s Health Event at the Michigan State Fairgrounds.  The event will run from 9AM-4PM and the entrance is located at 770 W. State Fair, in Highland Park.  To avoid waiting in a line, they do recommend scheduling a time for your drive-through by registering at this website.

All Metro Detroit-area men, ages 18 years and older, with or without insurance, can participate in this completely drive-through event.  All services are completely free, and include vital screenings, a bloodwork panel, flu vaccinations, FIT kits for colorectal cancer screening, COVID-19 nasal swab testing, and HIV testing.  All testing will be administered without participants needing to leave their vehicles.  Blood work results will be texted back, unless other arrangements are made at the event, and you do not need to be fasting for the blood draw.  More information about the event is available here. 

The Debate on Prostate Cancer Screening in Detroit

Prostate Cancer screening is a double-edged sword. Prostate specific antigen is a protein made by the prostate that can become elevated during prostate cancer. It can be easily tested with a blood draw. Just because it can be easily tested, doesn’t mean it should be tested. Usually, PSA testing is done on an annual basis for men with a family history of prostate cancer.

The test is only recommended for men between the ages of 55 and 69. If you don’t have a family history of prostate cancer, and you get the PSA test, and it comes back high, a workup may be recommended. To find out if you have prostate cancer, a trans-rectal biopsy is performed. That means a Urologist or a prostate cancer specialist inserts an instrument into your butthole/rectum, and uses an instrument to take a piece of tissue from your prostate.

Because this biopsy is close to other important nerves and blood vessels that can control urine function and erectile function, this transrectal biopsy and other procedures to test for and treat prostate cancer can result in loss of urinary function and loss of erectile function.

You must know these facts before being tested for prostate cancer with a simple blood test.

From the United States Preventive Services Task Force:

For men aged 55 to 69 years, the decision to undergo periodic prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer should be an individual one. Before deciding whether to be screened, men should have an opportunity to discuss the potential benefits and harms of screening with their clinician and to incorporate their values and preferences in the decision. Screening offers a small potential benefit of reducing the chance of death from prostate cancer in some men. However, many men will experience potential harms of screening, including false-positive results that require additional testing and possible prostate biopsy; overdiagnosis and overtreatment; and treatment complications, such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction. In determining whether this service is appropriate in individual cases, patients and clinicians should consider the balance of benefits and harms on the basis of family history, race/ethnicity, comorbid medical conditions, patient values about the benefits and harms of screening and treatment-specific outcomes, and other health needs. Clinicians should not screen men who do not express a preference for screening.

I’ll repeat that information for emphasis: Screening offers a small potential benefit of reducing the chance of death from prostate cancer in some men. However, many men will experience potential harms of screening, including false-positive results that require additional testing and possible prostate biopsy; overdiagnosis and overtreatment; and treatment complications, such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

Thanks for reading, and we hope you take advantage of these screening tests, when appropriate.

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Plum Health DPC

Plum Health DPC Featured in the Farmington Voice

Dr. Jamie Qualls of Plum Health DPC in Farmington Hills, Michigan was featured by the Farmington Voice this week. The Farmington Voice is a local paper that covers local news in the Farmington and Farmington Hills communities and Dr. Jamie Qualls and the arrival of her new primary care office therein received some nice coverage:

For a monthly membership fee, Plum Health Direct Primary Care (DPC) offers wholesale prices on medication and deeply discounted fees for x-rays and other tests. In addition, Dr. Jamie Qualls is available to patients anytime by text, email, or phone .

Having completed her residency in June, Qualls said this is the kind of medicine she has always wanted to practice. She chose the office in Civic Center Office Plaza, 25882 Orchard Lake Road, because of the central location and easy access to the freeway.

Here’s a link to the full article.

Dr. Jamie Qualls at her family medicine office in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Dr. Jamie Qualls is a family medicine doctor, using the direct primary care model, and is accepting new patients.

Family Medicine Doctor Accepting New Patients in Farmington Hills Michigan

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a Family Medicine Doctor practicing in Farmington Hills Michigan with Plum Health DPC. She is accepting new patients.

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a family medicine doctor accepting new patients in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She is a Board Certified Family Medicine doctor who completed her residency here in Southeast Michigan at Ascension Providence Hospital. She is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Jamie Qualls practices full time at the Plum Health DPC office in Farmington Hills, Michigan - the address is 25882 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 200B, Farmington Hills, MI 48336.

As a family medicine physician, Dr. Jamie Qualls has a broad scope of practice. She helps patients manage chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, asthma, COPD, and many more. Dr. Qualls is also proficient in caring for urgent concerns, like urinary tract infections, laceration repairs, ingrown toenails, strep throat, viral gastroenteritis, and others.

Finally, Dr. Qualls excels at integrating plant based nutrition into her care plans to produce optimal health outcomes for her patients. Dr. Qualls can collect blood work in the office to test for cholesterol levels, thyroid disorders, electrolyte imbalances, and kidney or liver disorders. She can also coordinate imaging studies that may be needed to make an accurate diagnosis.

To become a patient of Dr. Qualls, please sign up here.

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a Family Medicine Doctor Accepting New Patients in Farmington Hills

Dr. Jamie Qualls is a Family Medicine Doctor Accepting New Patients in Farmington Hills, Michigan

Dr. Jamie Qualls has joined the team at Plum Health DPC. She is accepting new patients at our new location in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Dr. Jamie Qualls is trained in Family Medicine and she takes care of patients of all ages and stages, from birth to children, from adolescence to adulthood, from older adults to the elderly. She focuses on using plant-based nutrition to help her patients heal themselves by using food as medicine.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day,

-Dr. Paul Thomas MD