While much of primary care seems to be shifting toward triage, it's worth noting that Direct Primary Care (DPC) is actually growing rapidly as an alternative model. More physicians are choosing DPC to maintain autonomy, provide deeper patient relationships, and escape the typical fee-for-service grind and administrative burden. It's an encouraging sign that not all doctors are resigned to becoming 'glorified triage agents' some are building new models focused on genuine, highly personal care.
The triage model of primary care is a disaster. I unwittingly got caught up in it a few years ago and I still don't trust corporate primary care. I was able to find a direct primary care doc a year later and finally got the proper referrals and basic clinical and interpersonal competence. Corporate primary care docs are caught in a vise between the jaw faces of Big Hospital and Big Insurance.
Good luck finding an independent practice out their in the medical world where a diversity of opinions among a community of physicians I think would be a good thing not an independent sole doc where you just have one opinion.
While much of primary care seems to be shifting toward triage, it's worth noting that Direct Primary Care (DPC) is actually growing rapidly as an alternative model. More physicians are choosing DPC to maintain autonomy, provide deeper patient relationships, and escape the typical fee-for-service grind and administrative burden. It's an encouraging sign that not all doctors are resigned to becoming 'glorified triage agents' some are building new models focused on genuine, highly personal care.
The triage model of primary care is a disaster. I unwittingly got caught up in it a few years ago and I still don't trust corporate primary care. I was able to find a direct primary care doc a year later and finally got the proper referrals and basic clinical and interpersonal competence. Corporate primary care docs are caught in a vise between the jaw faces of Big Hospital and Big Insurance.
Good luck finding an independent practice out their in the medical world where a diversity of opinions among a community of physicians I think would be a good thing not an independent sole doc where you just have one opinion.
That's my opinion.
Cheers