by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Oct 28, 2024 | Concierge Medicine
Direct primary care (DPC) limits the number of patients physicians serve. Some people think this concept is trendy, complicated, or “only for the rich.” Members-only practices go by many titles: private medicine, membership medicine, direct primary care, primary...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Aug 20, 2024 | Concierge Medicine
If you run a small business, you know that health insurance premiums — even for healthy employees — grow more cost-prohibitive year after year. In fact, over the past decade, premiums have increased 40%. Most employees appreciate receiving health insurance through...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jul 9, 2024 | Concierge Medicine
Recently, I spoke to a primary care doctor who completed his medical residency less than a year ago. Since then, he’s struggled with the constraints and demands of working within a traditional primary care practice. And, in that short time, he’s already questioning...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | May 14, 2024 | Concierge Medicine
At Priority Physicians, families are our purpose. As a family medicine doctor managing a full-scope primary care practice, I’m biased. I love knowing, speaking with, and treating multiple members of a family. Family practice physicians are trained to help patients...
by Dr. Jacob Brandon | Mar 19, 2024 | Concierge Medicine
Every parent, regardless of occupation, struggles to balance a busy career with their kids’ needs. Every stage of a child’s development poses unique challenges, and finding the time to address those challenges is difficult. I myself am a father and physician — a...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Dec 5, 2023 | Concierge Medicine
My patients spend a lot of time talking to me about managing and improving their current health, how active they hope to be in retirement, and even how they’d like their lives to look in their 80s and 90s. The subject of death is different. Few people like to envision...