The Loneliest Job That Never Feels Lonely

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When I tell people I practice alone — no partners, no colleagues down the hall, just me and my families — they usually assume it must get isolating. And on paper, they’re not wrong. I’m a solo physician in a solo practice. There’s no morning huddle. No one to grab lunch with. No colleague to pull aside between patients and run something by.

What I didn’t expect is how little any of that matters.

The DPC community is one of the most genuinely engaged, intellectually curious groups of physicians I have ever encountered. These are doctors who made a deliberate choice to practice differently. They left something comfortable and familiar because they believed medicine could be better. That shared conviction creates a foundation for conversation that I never found sitting in the same room as five other physicians in a traditional practice.

And I mean that literally. I spent years surrounded by colleagues and had fewer meaningful conversations about medicine than I’ve had in my first year of DPC. The difference isn’t proximity. It’s intention. In traditional practice, everyone is heads-down, managing their panel, fighting the same administrative fires. There isn’t much room for the kind of conversation that actually makes you think. In DPC, physicians are constantly sharing — what’s working, what isn’t, how they solved a problem, what they’re reading, what they’re building.

I’ve had conversations with DPC physicians across the country that have genuinely changed how I practice. Everything from facebook group posts, podcasts, video chats and a local DPC group text. Because we are physicians and entrepreneurs there is an uplifting spirit about breaking the norms. No matter where we are from or how our practice is doing we all share the same feeling. That we love practicing this way!

About Daniel Dvoskin, DO

Dr. Dvoskin, known to most patients as “Dr. Daniel,” was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where he spent his early childhood. Fluent in English and Russian, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biological Science from Florida International University and a Doctor of Medicine from William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dr. Daniel launched his pediatric medicine career at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s, where he completed his residency in 2022. He worked with Texas Children's Hospital until he started his current direct pediatric primary care practice. He has a passion for forming relationships with patients and watching them grow alongside their families. When not seeing patients, Dr. Daniel enjoys spending family time with his family: his wife, an optometrist in Hutto, and their daughters. His other hobbies include creative writing and automotive sports. Community outreach is important to Dr. Daniel, and he looks forward to planting roots in the Taylor area.