Comments on: Primary care sacrifice http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html/comment-page-1#comment-88093 Anonymous Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html#comment-88093 I'm a graduating primary care resident next summer that is also going into concierge medicine. Maybe I will work a few years in a traditional system just to get my hands more wet, but most likely, I will start up from scratch.<br/><br/> No way I am going to work for the government for peanuts and take crap all day. I would rather not practice medicine than having to even think about "ICD"-codes.<br/>And Kevin is right. There are more coming. I don't know any of my fellow residents that haven't considered concierge in one or the other way. I’m a graduating primary care resident next summer that is also going into concierge medicine. Maybe I will work a few years in a traditional system just to get my hands more wet, but most likely, I will start up from scratch.

No way I am going to work for the government for peanuts and take crap all day. I would rather not practice medicine than having to even think about “ICD”-codes.
And Kevin is right. There are more coming. I don’t know any of my fellow residents that haven’t considered concierge in one or the other way.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html/comment-page-1#comment-87514 Anonymous Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html#comment-87514 ha! the mid levels won't want to do primary care either. what is going to happen then? ha! the mid levels won’t want to do primary care either. what is going to happen then?

]]> By: Steven D. Knope, M.D. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html/comment-page-1#comment-87512 Steven D. Knope, M.D. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html#comment-87512 As our politicians have been pontificating about the "morality" of nationalized health insurance, there has been a silent, mass exodus from primary care medicine. No bright young medical student in his/her right mind would opt for a career as an internist in our current system, or even worse, opt for a career in some nationalized health care system run by Washington bureaucrats. <br/><br/>Concierge medicine, which is nothing more than private practice with a twist, is the only rational response for young doctors who want to practice internal medicine. Good for them! <br/><br/>Steven D. Knope, M.D.<br/>Author, Concierge Medicine, A New System to Get the Best Healthlcare." (Praeger, 2008)<br/>www.conciergemedicinemd.com As our politicians have been pontificating about the “morality” of nationalized health insurance, there has been a silent, mass exodus from primary care medicine. No bright young medical student in his/her right mind would opt for a career as an internist in our current system, or even worse, opt for a career in some nationalized health care system run by Washington bureaucrats.

Concierge medicine, which is nothing more than private practice with a twist, is the only rational response for young doctors who want to practice internal medicine. Good for them!

Steven D. Knope, M.D.
Author, Concierge Medicine, A New System to Get the Best Healthlcare.” (Praeger, 2008)
http://www.conciergemedicinemd.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html/comment-page-1#comment-87508 Anonymous Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html#comment-87508 Kevin,<br/><br/>You're mixing "cash based" and "boutique" practices as if they're synonymous, they're not. <br/><br/>Cash based practices reject third party payers but aren't necessarily for the affluent nor always require an annual fee. Boutique practices often take insurance payments but, of course, get that annual fee from their affluent patients. Kevin,

You’re mixing “cash based” and “boutique” practices as if they’re synonymous, they’re not.

Cash based practices reject third party payers but aren’t necessarily for the affluent nor always require an annual fee. Boutique practices often take insurance payments but, of course, get that annual fee from their affluent patients.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html/comment-page-1#comment-87506 Anonymous Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/primary-care-sacrifice.html#comment-87506 These "boutique" opportunities will no doubt come laden with contractual restrictive covenants that will place the new graduate in the subordinate position to his employer for some time to come, perhaps indefinitely. If he gets dissatisfied covering the call of his and his employer's practice, there will always be another new graduate to take his place. These “boutique” opportunities will no doubt come laden with contractual restrictive covenants that will place the new graduate in the subordinate position to his employer for some time to come, perhaps indefinitely. If he gets dissatisfied covering the call of his and his employer’s practice, there will always be another new graduate to take his place.

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