Restoring the Viability and Dignity of Family Medicine: Making the Case for Direct Primary Care

This is an excerpt from Florida Family Physician Journal, spring 2020. My story is not unique. I am a first-generation physician who chose family medicine for all the right reasons. After medical school, I returned to my hometown – hopes and dreams in tow – to practice medicine amongst family and friends. I took the only paying job available with the local hospital where I worked for a few years before becoming fed up with the impersonal nature of the corporate health system. […]

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