This video starts with Amber Sturzenegger Beckenhauer, a DPC doc at the Healthy Human DPC office in Nebraska but shows a bunch of great DPC doctors holding up a carrot. Vance Lassey, MD of Holton Direct Care used it for his keynote talk at the DPC Summit a few years back:
This video concluded my conference-ending motivational Direct Primary Care lecture, which included a reading of the children’s book “The Carrot Seed” and features many doctors from coast to coast who left the broken healthcare system with only the faith that there was a better way, and against the odds, proved that they were right.
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.
