Physician Crab Mentality

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Author Sahil Bloom put this out and I tweaked his first image to represent doctors. What does this mean? Well, here are Sahil’s follow-up images to explain:

Do you get it now?

Unfortunately, doctors don’t want to help each other escape the system. Doctors don’t want to work together to fix the system. Some doctors are even saboteurs. And if you do escape to do Direct Primary Care, many of your past colleagues have what I call Death Row Syndrome. That’s where you were all in it together as you sat on death row, but as soon as you got pardoned (left to do DPC), then they hate you.

What’s missing in the first picture above, however, is that of a practicing (or retired) DPC doctor helping you to escape the grip of the physician crabs holding you back.

Don’t believe me?

Go to the DPC Summit this July. See all the smiling faces. Ask for advice, and you will get it. Watch great lectures showing how to leave the bucket.

Can’t go?

Well, DPC News® is free to help as many of you as we can. There are books and forums and newsletters. It’s all out there.

You can leave the bucket! The rest is up to you.

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About Douglas Farrago, MD

Dr. Farrago is a retired family physician based in Forest, Virginia. Since 2021, he has run DPCnews.com, a leading resource for the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement. He is the author of three best-selling books on Direct Primary Care: The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice The Direct Primary Care Doctor’s Daily Motivational Journal Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity) In 2016, Dr. Farrago conceived the idea for the Direct Primary Care Alliance and co-founded the organization alongside other pioneering DPC physicians. He is widely recognized as a leading expert in the DPC model and frequently lectures to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians on how to successfully start and run their own DPC practices.Dr. Farrago sold his Direct Primary Care practice in October 2020 but continues to receive care there as a patient.