An argument that concierge medicine is the only way to serve the public good:
To argue that retainer-style medicine – or indeed, any innovation that somehow restores both the professional integrity of medical practice and the patient’s rightful advocate – is unethical is completely wrong. It is one of the few viable pathways toward restoring the foundational (but currently obsolete) medical ethic of always placing the patient first.
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Kudos to Kevin and the rest of you embracing this concept for finally taking some concrete steps to improve the situation and to (hopefully) steer us off the single payer track.
CJD
I looked for a retainer doc in my community–there is none.
I don’t really care if he is retainer, cash FFS, or some other model–I would just like to find someone for my primary care who I pay directly, pay him enough that he isn’t pushing me through like a cow at the sale barn, and who sends out NO forms or other information on me to anyone else without my consent.
Somebody like my family GP of 30 years ago would suit me fine: Cheap office, no billing staff, cash on the barrel head fees, and blunt straight shooting. I’ll even put up with the grime in the corner and the dirty smudged lab coat if I have too.
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