Wed. May 8th, 2024

This article has me flabbergasted. First, it’s full of gobbledygook, so it must be written by the money people and it is. Just check out the headline:

Direct Primary Care Market Analysis By Size Estimation, Share, Business Growth, Demand and Regional Trends |Top key players: Oak Street Health

Yes, that image above is the cost for this! What’s in it? I don’t want to give my info for a sample but here is what the article said:

The review will act as an instrument for better comprehension of the current and future condition of the global Direct Primary Care Market It will give a 360-degree perspective of available serious scenes and elements, as well as those of associated ventures. The review will give buyers with exact market development headings, permitting them to get an upper hand during the projection time frame.

The Direct Primary Care Market report will likewise feature the different learning experiences accessible to an assortment of areas, organizations, providers, and affiliations that offer an assortment of administrations and items. It additionally remembers data for the business’ top rivals as well as anticipated organizations, including portion of the overall industry in light of income, request, great item creators, deals, and specialist co-ops.

Top key players: Oak Street Health
Paladina Health
Forward Health
Crossover Health
EverMed
Plum Health
Nextera Healthcare
Boston Direct Health
PeakMed

Do you see what is happening here? They are trying to figure us all out. They are trying to commoditize us. They want to dehumanize DPC like they did the fee-for-service system.

The top players? WTF? The top players are ALL the independent DPC doctors out there!

Wait, there’s more:

Reasons Why You Should Buy This Report:

• To gain an in-depth understanding of Direct Primary Care Market
• To obtain research-based business decisions and add weight to presentations and marketing strategies
• To gain competitive knowledge of leading market players
• It gives pin point investigation of changing rivalry elements and keeps you in front of contenders.
• It helps in settling on educated business choices by having total bits of knowledge of market and by making inside and out investigation of market sections.

To be honest, the whole thing is weird. It almost looks as if it was a templated article written by a bot. It doesn’t matter. The future of those storming the gates is here. They will continue to try to get in the middle of our relationships with patients.

DON’T SELL OUT!

Don’t work for them. Don’t sell to them. The DINOs (DPC In Name Only) are coming!

97420cookie-checkAttention All Direct Primary Care Doctors: They Are Trying to Commoditize You!
(Visited 447 times, 1 visits today)

By Douglas Farrago, MD

Douglas Farrago MD is board certified in the specialty of Family Practice. He is the inventor of a product called the Knee Saver which is currently in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Knee Saver and its knock-offs are worn by many major league baseball catchers. He is also the inventor of the CryoHelmet used by athletes for head injuries as well as migraine sufferers. From 2001 – 2011, Dr. Farrago was the editor and creator of the Placebo Journal which ran for 10 full years. Described as the Mad Magazine for doctors, he and the Placebo Journal were featured in the Washington Post, US News and World Report, the AP, and the NY Times. Douglas Farrago, MD received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia in 1987, his Masters of Education degree in the area of Exercise Science from the University of Houston in 1990, and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas at Houston in 1994. His residency training occurred way up north at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. In his final year, he was elected Chief Resident by his peers. Dr. Farrago has practiced family medicine for twenty-three years, first in Auburn, Maine and now in Forest, Virginia. He founded Forest Direct Primary Care in 2014, which quickly filled in 18 months. Dr. Farrago still blogs every day on his website Authenticmedicine.com and lectures worldwide about the present crisis in our healthcare system and the effect it has on the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Farrago’s has written three 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 and Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity) are all best sellers in this genre. He is a leading expert in direct primary care model and lectures medical students, residents, and doctors on how to start their own DPC practice. He retired from clinical medicine in October, 2020.

One thought on “Attention All Direct Primary Care Doctors: They Are Trying to Commoditize You!”

Comment Here and Join the Discussion