I recently saw this article called Primary care company Forward cuts 5% of workforce amid ‘extremely tough’ market conditions and it made me wonder whether the independent DPC docs are having the same troubles. I think not because independent DPC docs are the real deal and not some fluffed up bullshit made to look DPC. Too much? Well, here are some quotes from the article:
“Forward does not build doctor offices. We build hardware and software that scales,” Forward’s CEO and founder Adrian Aoun said recently during the Collision 2022 technology conference in Toronto.
“Healthcare shouldn’t be a service we think healthcare should be a product. We are going to build technologies and tools so the role of the doctor changes. We want doctors to go from the person who is fixing the flu on you to writing the software and hardware that fixes the flu on millions and billions of people,” Aoun said. “We want to move from doctors fixing one person at a time to medical engineers who fix the problem once and for all. We want to build healthcare that innovates rapidly.”
Yeah, this is not DIRECT PRIMARY CARE. I actually don’t know what this is. Medical engineers? WTF?
So, back to the question. Are the economic issues of today hurting your practice? I know that my former office is killing it with a massive waiting list. Are you cutting staff? Salaries?