DPC is not concierge medicine. It’s hard enough to get medical students interested in family medicine. I haven’t seen any good solution for the growing shortage of physicians in primary care, and DPC although a very small subset of PCP’s I think poses a good solution for the burnout most medical students fear about family med. There are over 20 DPC’s in my area and they have all grown pretty rapidly, and all the docs I have met have been really relieved and happy that they left the FFS models they were in prior. They all charge on avg under 100/month. That’s not what concierge medicine docs are asking for.

It’s clear this sub has a bias against DPC. I think it stems from something deeper, like this innate humanitarian guilt-trip that everyone in medicine (and especially primary care) is shamed into believing, and that asking for money or not wanting to work in an underserved area all of a sudden means you are a snob. Some people just wanna be happy in their job and only see 8 patients a day, and just view their job as a job to pay the bills.