Here is a really great article on Dr. Kyle Rickner from Primary Health Partners about DPC. I think it does a nice job explaining Dr. Rickner’s motivation to do DPC while also explaining some of the forces behind the movement. Here are some highlights:
- “The free market of medicine had eroded,” he said.
- “It was just like the light bulb went on,” Dr. Rickner said. In January of 2016 he and Dr. Lockwood founded Primary Health Partners with two other staff members and his own daughter as office help.
- “In a standard primary care practice, a physician may have 2,000 or even 3,000 patients,” he said. That means most primary care doctors are hustling through 25 or even 30 office appointments per day, giving at most 15 minutes per patient.
- “In that kind of environment the number of visits is inversely proportional to the quality of care,” he said. “We limit our patient panel to 600 to 800 per physician.” That allows his staff members to spend the necessary time with each patient.
- “What we do,” Dr. Rickner said, “is bring common sense back to the chaos of medicine.” That, he added, brings “a high degree of personal satisfaction to the physician. I believe more young medical students will see primary care as a viable option under the DPC model.
That’s some of the good news. The resources that the article claims are relevant can be debated. They don’t mention us at DPC News. They don’t mention the DPC Alliance. That’s a shame. I guess you can’t win them all but we hope those reading this in the future will correct this.
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