Medical Economics August 29, 2018
Cheryl Alkon

For Sean McNeeley, MD, patient care was what drew him to medicine. But the challenges of running his own private practice, with its growing administrative burden, made it hard to stay there. So he decided to limit his work to urgent care.

“I loved being in private practice, but it was a challenge in family medicine to be able to do it all well and balance time with my family,” says McNeeley, the medical director of University Hospitals Urgent Care Network based in Cleveland.

Board certified in both family and urgent care medicine, McNeeley ran his private practice from 1999-2004 while also working at an urgent care clinic for extra income. Ultimately, he closed his...

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