Dr. Philipp Olshausen has been an internal medicine physician since 2006 when he finished his residency at the Yale-affiliated Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut. His training began in his home country of Germany, in Berlin, where he attended the Charité at the Humboldt Universität, having lived in the U.S. for a few years as a teenager due to his father’s job, there was something drawing him back and that led to his residency and chief residency in Connecticut. He has lived in beautiful Southern Oregon ever since.
He had a career practicing primary care medicine with different independent medical practices and one of his biggest professional achievements was opening his own Direct Primary Care practice in 2017.
Being able to step away from the third-party payers was amazing for his professional life in the way that he could provide care to patients and for the work-life balance it provided as well. He started also working in telemedicine jobs here and there, but since 2020 has made that a regular endeavor as well, and it has allowed him to experience the exciting world of telehealth and digital health with all it has to offer. It has been wonderful to be a part of that growing and expanding way to practice medicine and play another part in fixing the broken healthcare system by improving access to care, which he has found to be one of the biggest issues right up there with the unnecessarily exorbitant costs.