Dr. Jessica Furey is a Board-Certified family medicine physician practicing in Mequon, WI. She is a native of the Chicago area, and lived in 5 different midwestern states during her undergraduate, medical, and residency training. She attended medical school at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and moved to WI after completing her residency through Michigan State University, where she served as Chief Resident in her final year.
Dr. Furey opened North Star Primary Care, officially, in the middle of 2022, and believes that Direct Primary Care is the remedy for both patient and physician unhappiness in the traditional fee-for-service medical system. She lives with her wife, Emily, two step-children, two cats, and innumerable plants in an area just outside of Milwaukee, and is happy to encourage and offer support to any physician thinking of making the leap into DPC. She feels life has too much to offer to stay “stuck” in a system that doesn’t support physicians or really care for patients.
In today’s episode, she shares how her life in publishing and freelancing switched gears driven by her desire to affect change in the world. Through her DPC, North Star Primary Care, she has done just that. From making a difference in people’s lives through being an employed DPC physician, venturing out to serve her patients in her own practice, being a hospice physician to helping others create their clinics, Dr. Furey has made her dreams come true!