Dr. Lassey earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Program, where he served as the chief resident. He went on to practice rural inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and obstetric care, in Holton, Kansas. He found the calling he loved to have been hijacked by middlemen. Stuck in a broken system, mired in bureaucracy, clicking boxes, coding, not seeing his family, and hearing patients complain bitterly about medical costs he had no ability to control, Direct Primary Care (DPC) became the solution for him, his family, and his patients. He is passionate about restoring the physician-patient relationship, bringing transparency and sanity to medical costs, and advises physicians around the country on how to get out of the FFS system. He serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, is the recipient of numerous clinical and teaching awards, and is a founding member and the past President of the Direct Primary Care Alliance.
As I’ve written before. DPC will not work everywhere where a bunch of lower economic status, stupid patients expect everything will be handed to them on a platter. I suspect the vast majority of DPC docs don’t do hospital practice or take call and indeed that can lead to more satisfaction in life with an office only practice. Nothing wrong with that. Even Doug bailed out as I assume as soon as he could when he was able to make income on his sidelines. I do NOT blame him for doing that one iota. If one is “getting out” of training and desiring going to do DPC, they have to be very, very careful of choosing the geographical area they’re going to go or get hired into an equitable DPC practice. One better have a pleasant personality, not be a “bastid” or patients will bail and the doc in question will be looking for another job. Oh, hospital skills acquired will rapidly atrophy if one doesn’t have the opportunity to maintain them by in-hospital practice.