KevinMD May 2, 2024
I never wanted to be a formal concierge doctor. Most of us are familiar with those plans that make physicians limit their patient panel to several hundred patients, and each one of them agrees to pay several thousand dollars for the privilege of access to their physician at all times. Sure, after over 30 years of practice in the same community, having a smaller patient panel, dedicating more time to each one, and slowing down was definitely appealing. The thought of letting go of most of my longtime patients was not. And so I plugged along.
But a funny thing happened over a year ago. Our health care system installed a new electronic medical record (EMR) system—a shiny new one...