Is Direct Primary Care the Cure for Burnout?
If you graduated from medical school, completed residency, and chose a primary care specialty, you are in the top 1% of compassion, intelligence, and resilience. If you're feeling burned out, tired, and beat up by the system, it's not your fault - it's the healthcare system that is fundamentally broken, not you. You're not the one with the problem, it's the system that is fundamentally broken. Direct Primary Care can be your bridge to a fulfilling career in medicine, so take the next step.
The Startup DPC book by Dr. Paul Thomas. If you’re a burned out physician, try Direct Primary Care - you can do this!
While direct primary care is not a perfect system, it’s certainly closer to the truth than the typical fee-for-service system of delivering care. With direct primary care, doctors have about 30 minutes to an hour to spend with each patient. Doctors and patients can invest in a meaningful relationship, and that relationship-based form of medicine can be sustaining for both parties. Doctors feel like their work is valued and valuable, and patients feel heard and understood, and not just another number.
For these reasons, direct primary care can be a reasonable treatment for physician burnout. It comes with a different kind of stress level and a different kind of workload, but one that is ultimately manageable and fulfilling for doctors and their patients.
Thanks for reading,
-Dr. Paul Thomas
STARTUP DPC - DIRECT PRIMARY CARE MASTER CLASS
Because there are no in-person conferences this year, we are hosting an intimate gathering of Direct Primary Care doctors who are looking to start and grow their DPC practices. We did this last year, and it was a rousing success! Join our Direct Primary Care Master Class on August 20th and 21st, 2021 at our Plum Health DPC office in Detroit, Michigan and accelerate your growth as a DPC doctor.