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"Converting my practice to a modern practice has allowed me to be the kind of doctor I dreamed of being when I first chose medicine. for the first time in my career, I have the time to build high quality relationships with my patients and to impact their health rather than just treat an episode of illness. My affiliation with Modernmed has afforded me the tools I need to exert more control over my practice, which, in turn, has given me a better lifestyle and more time with my family. This is the way medicine should be practiced."

- ModernMed Family Practice physician, converted his practice after 17 years in a group practice

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Literature References

"2006 Survey of Primary Care Physicians",
Merritt, Hawkins & Associates
"Impending Collapse of Primary Care Medicine and Its Implications for the State of the Nation's Health Care",
American College of Physicians
"Primary Care - Will It Survive?",
The New England Journal of Medicine
"Slowing the Growth of U.S. Health Care Expenditures: What Are the Options?",
The Commonwealth Fund
"Retainer Practices White Paper"
"Self-pay Practices White Paper"

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Health Care 2009 - Wall Street Journal Commentary
Health Care 2009 July 7, 2008 Washington is caught up in another one of its health-care spending burlesques, and liberals are belting out their favorite tunes. The GOP wants to “wipe out Medicare as we know it,” sings Harry Reid. “The Bush Administration is perfectly happy to have billions of dollars going to insurance companies instead of [...]

Chicago Doctor Converts
Up at 3:30 a.m. In the office at 5 a.m. Paperwork and hospital rounds for two hours. Back-to-back appointments until 3:30 p.m. Then another four hours of administrative duties before heading home. This was Dr. Dragan Djordjevic’s daily schedule until one day he just couldn’t take it anymore. Chicago Tribune. Go here for article.

Delay in Medicare Physician Cuts
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more time to block a scheduled 10.6 percent fee cut. The decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn’t block the cut, scheduled to take [...]

Insurance Companies Dump Concierge Doctors
One of the issues faced by doctors deciding to move into concierge medicine is whether their insurance companies will keep them on their panels. As we know, it is virtually impossible to predict what certain companies may do. A recent article in the Houston Chronicle sheds some light on what some companies in Texas are [...]

Short Newsweek Article
Daniel Khani was feeling healthy, but he did have a medical problem or, rather, a problem with medicine: he thought he wasn’t getting enough of it. The basic physical he got each year was, well, basic. Khani, a wealthy real-estate investor, was accustomed to better treatment in the rest of his life. So in September, [...]