Our Approach
Praeventus is Latin for “to act ahead.” We named the practice for the idea, and we run it toward one goal: that you reach 100 in good health, not just reach it. Everything on this page works toward that in two ways: how we treat you day to day, and how we look after you year to year.
How we treat you
A person answers
Call during office hours and a person picks up. No phone tree, no callback queue. Whitney runs the front of the practice and knows most members by voice. If your doctor is with someone, she tells you when they will be free, and they are.
Your doctor’s cell
Every member has their doctor’s cell number. A question at 9 pm gets an answer at 9 pm, from the person who knows your history, not a nurse line reading a script. Evenings and weekends included.
Same day or next day
If you are sick, we see you today or tomorrow, in the office or on video. The panel is kept small on purpose, so there is room in the day for the unexpected.
A lobby, not a waiting room
Appointments start on time. The lobby is for taking off your coat, not for forty minutes with a clipboard.
The easiest blood draw you’ve had
Drawn in our office, by our phlebotomists and nurses, with no second trip to a lab. Patients bring us their specialists’ lab orders because they would rather be drawn here.
How we look after you
A typical physical, and ours
The typical physical has barely changed in fifty years, while what medicine can measure has. Ours is built around what can be measured now.
60+ biomarkers, every year
Drawn in our office by our phlebotomists and nurses, reviewed with your doctor line by line, and tracked against your own history so a trend shows up before symptoms do.
Metabolic, kidney and liver
Can flag pre-diabetes, kidney and liver stress
Blood
Can flag anemia, infection, clotting
Urine
Can flag kidney strain, infection, diabetes
Hormones and nutrients
Can flag thyroid, deficiencies
Heart
Can flag plaque risk a standard panel misses
Inflammation and immune
Can flag hidden inflammation, gout, Lyme
Other services members use, which we can help coordinate. Ordered only when your results call for it, and billed separately by the provider: Galleri multi-cancer test, Prenuvo whole body MRI, coronary CT angiogram.
Half of heart attacks happen to people with normal cholesterol. ApoB and Lp(a) count the particles that actually build plaque. We measure them every year with Cleveland HeartLab, add an EKG, and watch the direction, not the snapshot.
ApoB, mg/dL, over three years
One reading is a snapshot. Three show the direction.
higher five-year survival when pancreatic cancer is found before it spreads: 44% versus 3%. National Cancer Institute, SEER 2016 to 2022.
Screening identifies risk; it does not guarantee any outcome.
Routine screening covers four cancers and starts at an age. The Sentinel Panel is our standing protocol for the cancers routine screening misses: six tumor markers, drawn twice a year, read against your own baseline rather than a population range.
Drawn twice a year
With your other labs, in our office. No extra visit.
Read against your baseline
Your own numbers from last time, not a population range.
A rise is retested in one month
Not six. Most rises are noise; a repeat tells us which.
Two rises, and we act
Imaging or a specialist within days, arranged by your doctor.
$300 a month. Visits and labs are billed to your insurance. Start with a 15-minute call.
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Other locations
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