Can you shop around to find better prices on health care services? A lot of people say healthcare is NOT like other goods and services, as the price is hidden. But is it really? They usually mentio…

I am a little older now, but I remember this day like it was yesterday. Then I started my DPC life and administrators couldn’t bother me. This is my own private practice and I will not be har…

I was doing some early Spring cleaning when I came across this – the last time away request form I completed before switching to DPC.  I hated these. I despised them. They were such a hassle. …

Call for Presentations Pediatric DPC Conference 2026April 17–19, 2026 | The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa | Savannah, Georgia Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026 (extended)Not…

Saw this tag on a new t-shirt while folding a load of laundry.  Loved the sentiment.  Happiness is the real rich. Health is the real wealth.  Kindness is the real cool.  But the…

Direct Primary Care keeps getting more and more press. And Free Press. Actually, that’s the platform where Charlotte Grinberg, MD, wrote a fantastic article called I’m Finally Practicing Medi…

The term medical gaslighting has gained increasing visibility in recent years, particularly among patients who describe feeling dismissed, minimized, or unheard in clinical encounters. For many cli…

Michaela Varys, MD and Ziya Aktig, MD are a married couple of family medicine doctors who have long dreamt of starting their own practice and serving patients outside of the restrictions of a corpo…

Happy NEW YEAR… and welcome back all you DPC rebels and resistance fighters. Dr Shane is back with another Friday 5-Minute Magic Tip, and today we talk about growth versus scale in DPC. Can D…

For years, Direct Primary Care (DPC) has been described as a quiet revolution. We’ve felt it in our clinics—the extra 30 minutes spent with a complex diabetic patient, the ease of a quick text chec…

Echo Chamber Bingo: Mark Your Card! Before we begin, let’s play a game. Check off any you’ve witnessed in your favorite DPC Facebook group, Twitter thread, LinkedIn circle, Discord server, or Slack…

Big plans were made for our team building and planning day. My assistant, Natalie, and I were going to have a fun time exploring, writing and taking an afternoon excursion. I had been looking forwa…

Insurance math means spending $500/month on health insurance premiums and then paying for all of your healthcare out of pocket anyway because your deductible is over $7,000. This is the situation f…

Let’s review the new analysis from Harvard Medical School’s Blavatnik Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, and Johns Hopkins University. The researchers found that in just five …

Read. Watch. And if you are still bothered by this, then you need to make the jump into Direct Primary Care. Get our awesome newsletter by signing up here. It’s FREE!!! And we don’t share your emai…

I seem to be in a battle on LinkedIn with people criticizing Direct Primary Care. I used to hit these people with facts and anecdotes and studies but it never changed anything. Now I just get immat…

Mark Cuban has been active in the DPC and cash pay space recently. I wrote these 20 truths of DPC on LinkedIn to give him a quick rundown. These are points I think anyone new to DPC should know and…

I’ve been doing this blog for years now. I have seen it grow because Direct Primary Care is growing. News pieces, articles, Mark Cuban, the government, and every other third-party involved in…

Another January. Another chance to pretend we’ll become entirely different people just because the calendar flipped. Most resolutions are dead by February. We all know this. And yet here we a…

I think NBC did a pretty good job with this. I LOVE that they mentioned that the doctor in the piece attended a seminar that inspired him and it showed a picture of the DPC Summit!!!!! The story is…