Startup DPC Reviewed on GoodReads.com

Startup DPC Reviewed on GoodReads.com

This week, we took a look at our reviews for Startup DPC on GoodReads.com. Most of our reviews for Startup DPC are on Amazon.com, where we have 103 reviews for Startup DPC with an aggregate of five stars overall. On GoodReads.com, we have 15 ratings and 2 reviews for the Startup DPC book with an aggregate of 4.67 stars. These aren’t the most important metrics of all time, but they do give us an insight into our readers, and these positive reviews and great feed back show us that the material in the Startup DPC book is valuable for our readers - doctors who want to start and grow their own direct primary care practices.

This is a screen shot from GoodReads.com, a site that has 15 reviews for Startup DPC, our book about how to start and grow a direct primary care practice.

We got a glowing review from one of our readers, Ronald:

Dr. Paul Thomas writes: “You should start a direct primary care practice because you can become the doctor you’re meant to be.” There is a Japanese concept called Ikigai, or “your reason for being.” There’s no doubt what Dr. Paul’s reason for being is: to transform healthcare in the United States, transform the lives of his patients, better his community, and his profession. His passion bleeds through this book, and makes it an incredibly compelling read. It also is a nuts-to-bolts guide on how you can start your own Direct Primary Care practice, from marketing, branding, pricing, and a host of other issues that need to be addressed. When you read that we lose one doctor every day to physician suicide, the equivalent of an entire medical school graduating class, you realize that good people are working in a bad system. I absolutely love his question: “Who in this room would want a five minute haircut? No one raised their hand except for a bald guy. Why do you settle for a seven minute appointment for your health, for God’s sake?” Concierge and DPC medicine are transforming the way doctors provide, and patients consume, healthcare. It’s more affordable, convenient, accessible, but most importantly, it restores the sacred doctor-patient relationship. You will get an insider’s account of how Dr. Paul started his own practice, Plum Health, along with the trials, tribulations, and successes along his journey.

As someone who is interested in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that actually measure customer success, I loved the KPIs he measures at Plum Health: How many hospitalizations have we prevented? How many urgent care and emergency department visits have we prevented? If a patient has a weight loss goal. Management of their anxiety or depression, have we helped them meet that goal? How much money have we saved our patients? Have we decreased morbidity and mortality in our communities? These are much more difficult to measure accurately, but they get much closer to the truth regarding Plum’s efficacy as clinicians.

I hope this book is read by doctors looking to get back to why they became a doctor in the first place, rather than serving insurance companies and an unsustainable fee-for-service business model. And if you’re a patient, seriously consider finding a DPC doctor.

We have had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Paul two times, and a third one coming up on this book on June 26, 2020. You can listen to the first two interviews here…

This is a screen shot from GoodReads.com, a site that has 15 reviews for Startup DPC, our book about how to start and grow a direct primary care practice. One contributor wrote an in-depth review of our Startup DPC book, and for that we are grateful.

This is an extremely kind review, and we’re grateful for our readers and supporters. Our goal is to help as many doctors start and grow their direct primary care practices as possible. This model, and this movement, is essential to helping our patients and communities live healthier lives.

- Dr. Paul Thomas

Latest Review for Startup DPC Book

I love reading the reviews for the Startup DPC book - I really appreciate all of the kind words you’ve said about the material therein! Here’s the latest:

Dr. Paul presents the full story here on how he himself started his DPC clinic. While some books might be vague about the general processes, Dr. Paul tells you exactly what he did, what he used, and how much everything cost. It's important for people to know what they're really investing when it comes to DPC clinics, and Dr. Paul makes shares everything in his book. He does a great job articulating each step, and he writes in a way that is easy to read. He has a great story and a great approach that would benefit anybody who might be interested in DPC. Definitely worth the read.

I love being a part of this direct primary care movement. Reflecting on 2021 , the Direct Primary Care movement is continuing to grow every day and every week - there seems to be a new direct primary care doctor starting their own practice just about every week, and it’s amazing to see this happen. Here’s to the continued growth and success of the movement and here’s to a healthier nation and a stronger doctor-patient relationship.

Thanks for reading and have a great week.

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

If You're A Burned Out Physician, Try Direct Primary Care

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.

Encouraging Doctors to Start Direct Primary Care Practices

Family medicine doctors and primary care doctors are using the Startup DPC book to start and grow their direct primary care practices. This week, we got a delightful review via Amazon from one of our readers, and they said “Very awesome book. Not only does it give great insight for dpc but it is also very encouraging. Thank you for writing this, exactly what I was looking for!”

We really appreciate this sort of feedback.

To all of my direct primary care colleagues, I love encouraging other doctors and helping them succeed - your success is our shared success for this DPC movement.

Keep pushing. Keep growing. Keep serving. Keep leading.

How Can I Learn More About Starting an Direct Primary Care Practice?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How this Family Physician Started a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

How to Start a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

Many doctors want to start a direct primary care practice straight out of residency. This is a difficult task, so many doctors become intimidated by the amount of work involved and subsequently settle for a job as an employed physician with a large hospital system.

But, it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a step-by-step approach available to doctors who want to start their own direct primary care practices. First, you need to write a business plan for your direct primary care practice. This is crucial so that you understand the numbers involved, like how much it’ll cost to get set up, how much it will cost each month to run your business, how many patients you’ll need, and the average amount of money each patient needs to spend for your business to be sustainable.

Once you have your business plan in hand, you can create a timeline for that business. You will start by laying out a 12-month or 9-month or 6-month road map where you execute all of the tasks that you’ll need to complete to have a successful and thriving direct primary care practice. The great news is that you can complete many of these steps while in residency.

As a resident you can:

• write a business plan

• start building relationships with specialists

• learn as many new skills as you can that will help you deliver excellent medical care for your future patients

• design a website or work with a web designer

• design a logo or work with a logo designer

• come up with your mission, vision, and values for your new clinic

• start developing relationships with vendors like lab vendors, whole-sale medication vendors, and imaging services vendors

• start looking for locations for your new clinic

Simply put, residency is a great time to plan and dream big for your future direct primary care practice because you can start working on it now. I write about this process extensively in my book, Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice. In the book, I dedicate an entire chapter to what to do in Residency and how to do it, so you’re primed for success in the direct primary care model after graduation.

One of the biggest things you can do during residency is to set up your own elective rotation in direct primary care. I created a Direct Primary Care Elective Rotation Curriculum and I am happy to share it with you here - just drop me an email and I will send you my direct primary care elective rotation curriculum. Please include “Send me the Direct Primary Care Curriculum” in the message for the fastest response possible.

I also dedicate an entire chapter of the book to a detailed timeline of what to do over a 6 month to 12 month period, and how to leverage that time to build up to a successful and thriving direct primary care practice.

I’m writing about this today because I was recently featured on the Health Solutions podcast with Shawn Needham. It was a great conversation and we touch on these subjects in the interview!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Startup DPC Book Reaches 42 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reviews

Direct Primary Care Book ON Amazon is Highly Rated

Today, our book, Startup DPC reached 42 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews on Amazon. Here’s our latest review:

Sports medicine physician looking to make the jump to membership based practice....Dr. Thomas lays out a transparent plan on how to make this business model feasible for physicians. This is a must read.

Thanks Jasper! Glad you liked it! If you’d like to pick up a copy, do so here:

Today, we hit 42 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews for #StartupDPC https://t.co/Oj1NvcN0tj see what the buzz is all about #DirectPrimaryCare #StartupDPC #FamilyMedicine #DetroitDoctor #PTMD #PaulTMD

— Paul Thomas, MD (@PlumHealthDPC) November 2, 2020

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Startup DPC Book Review

This week, we received an amazing review from Chris Wilson, a social worker and critical thinker on healthcare issues for the Startup DPC book:

Hello, my name is Christopher and I am a behavioral health provider in the city of Chicago. I work in an integrated care setting within an infectious disease clinic. I am an avid advocate for comprehensive health care reform and as a result am increasingly curious and open to any voice within healthcare that seeks to offer an alternative to our otherwise failing, expensive, and underwhelming system.

This book and Dr. Paul’s previous book (see here) are about Direct Primary Care (DPC)—this one is specifically aimed at those who may want to consider opening a DPC practice. It is an excellent read and quite detailed—very few questions, if any will go unanswered. His passion for providing excellent care from the perspective of the patient and the doctor is fierce and he does an excellent job of showing just how DPC practices can do just that.

Further, the lost art of truly informed consent is not lost on Dr. Paul. He takes hopeful DPC practitioners through the potential good, bad, and ugly of DPC practices. Heck, Dr. Paul even hypothesizes the types of folks that SHOULDN’T consider this venture.

Yet this won’t be a surprise after getting to know to Dr. Paul in person or through his writings. His authenticity breathes off the pages and he speaks frankly about things in a way that for many will be deeply refreshing when contrasted with the overly sterile, uncompassionate, and impersonable state of many health systems today.

Personally, I want the real deal and someone that will tell me to dig deep when considering a mission statement as opposed to some generic cookie cutter “crap you just put on the wall.” Yes, it’s okay to laugh—humor is good friends and the author isn’t afraid to use it! Dr. Paul is dynamic and radically authentic, in the best way possible.

Hand in hand with authenticity comes transparency. Dr. Paul discusses how transparency and communication is one of the core values of his DPC practice. His writing is no different as this book offers a behind the curtain transparency about a vast range of topics pertaining to Dr. Paul’s personal DPC business ventures…right on down to the nuts and bolts of his personal salary. Again, if you have questions—this book will most likely have the answers. 

Listen, as someone who works within healthcare AND is a high utilizer of health care I know how much is wrong with our current system and how much more we deserve as both providers and patients. Dr. Paul also knows this—and he is actively attempting to address it by practicing WITHIN and advocating FOR a system of primary care he knows is better.

Despite my personal experience with top-notch health systems within Los Angeles and Chicago—it will always be infuriating to hear about patients being double or triple booked, services and medications being exorbitantly overpriced, the devastating salaries of healthcare CEOs, the terrible patient experience, etc---the list goes on.

While I’m not quite sure how the DPC movement fits within the broader end goal of bringing universal health care to the USA, Dr. Paul makes a compelling and strong case about how to vastly improve the primary care experience NOW…consider enrolling in and/or starting a DPC practice today.

A recommended read!

Christopher L. Wilson, LCSW

Chris Wilson reviews the Startup DPC book - it’s available in paperback and on Amazon Kindle

Praise for Startup DPC - the book that helps doctors start and grow their direct primary care practices

Over the last 2 weeks, we’ve gotten some great reviews for Startup DPC book - the book that helps aspiring direct primary care doctors start and grow their DPC practices. Check out what they had to say!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2020I cannot imagine starting my DPC clinic without this book. Simple yet robust content with all necessary information needed to be confident in this process. Excellent job Dr. Thomas!

Terri A Bowland

5.0 out of 5 stars Going DPC? Buy this book!

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020Verified PurchaseQuick, easy read but very informative. Buy hard copy to keep track of some lists of things to do. Thank you Dr. Paul!

Paige

5.0 out of 5 stars Continue reading if you need a little inspiration in your life!

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020I read this book this weekend on our road trip. I learned so much, and feel inspired! Instead of asking how can I fit into that job or that job? I’m asking how can I share who I am with my community through this model? It also breaks down the nuts and bolts in a way that makes it feel doable. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Paul Thomas MD and Startup DPC Featured on Physician Estate

This week, Paul Thomas MD and Startup DPC was featured on Physician Estate. Here’s the full interview:

Direct Primary Care vs Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicine

Direct Primary Care Practice vs. Traditional Fee-for-Service. We wanted to know more about DPC practice and how it is different from fee-for-service from the perspective of an experienced DPC doctor. We were lucky enough to have a Q&A interview with Dr. Paul Thomas of Plum Health DPC. Dr. Paul Thomas is a board-certified family medicine physician practicing in Corktown Detroit. His practice is Plum Health DPC, a Direct Primary Care service that is the first of its kind in Detroit and Wayne County.

In this Q&A blog post interview, he will share about his practice, challenges and milestones in his journey, and tips for physicians who are planning to start their own DPC practice. Are you a physician interested in starting your own DPC practice? This blog post might be helpful for you!

On Background

1. Please tell us a bit about your personal story, growing up, and medical training.

• I started volunteering in Detroit for homeless and uninsured folks in 2017. I really love taking care of people, but the further and further I got into my training, the less and less time I spend with my patients. Until I get to the end of my residency, I’m spending 10 or 15 minute per patient, and spending a lot more time charting, writing things in the medical record. I thought this was really unsustainable, I felt burned out–I didn’t want to do that anymore. 

• So I wrote a business plan in the last year of my residency, and I launched my practice, Plum Health DPC. And 4 years later, I’ve been doing really well with the practice–we’ve grown, we’ve hired 2 more doctors and we had a second location. 

2. What made you develop interest in Direct Primary Care? Motivating factors? Did you pursue any formal education/training that focuses on Direct Primary Care? If so, what was it?

• I developed an interest in Direct Primary Care because I felt like it was the only way out of a dysfunctional, industrial complex. I didn’t have any formal training in this, I wrote a business plan, I worked with a friend who started a suit company, of all things to write a business plan.

• I went on a road trip, visited a few mentors across the country who helped me formulate my plans and refine my business plan and make it so that I could develop a thriving practice here in Detroit, Michigan.

About Plum Health – A Direct Primary Care Platform

3. What is Plum Health? As a platform that specializes in Direct Primary Care practice, what is its unique value proposition? Tell us the story behind its creation. 

• In Plum Health, we believe that healthcare should be affordable and accessible for everyone, so we really do our best to lower the cost in Detroit and beyond. We contract with a local imaging vendor, a medication wholesale supplier, etc. to lower the costs of all those things. 

• So if you come in for a lab draw, you might get a TSH for $6, that’s what it costs here. But if you go to a hospital, it might cost you $125. So we really try to reduce the cost of healthcare for people. 

• Our unique value proposition is that we have time for our patients. Because our patients pay a monthly membership to be a part of our practice, we have this nice recurring revenue from our patients. We then get to spend more time with them as an individual–we have 1-hour appointments, and we can really listen to them and take care of them and all their concerns.  

4. Generally, how do you help educate physicians in the US who are interested in starting their own Direct Primary Care practice? Do you provide any services, courses, coaching, etc?

• I’m so glad you asked this. I’ve written 2 books about this. The first is called Direct Primary Care–it focuses on how Direct Primary Care serves people in the greater healthcare ecosystem, how you can lower the cost of healthcare for everyone (medications, labs, imaging, etc.) We also discuss how we’ve done this in an equitable and sustainable way in our hometown of Detroit, Michigan. 

• For the book How to Start Your Direct Primary Care Practice, we’ve had so much success here in Detroit. Because I’ve been a speaker at the American Academy of Family Physicians Direct Primary Care Conference and the Nuts and Bolts Conference in Florida, I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me and asked how we were successful, how we did this. To answer that, I wrote a book–it’s called Start Up DPC, how to start and grow your Direct Primary Care practice. I wrote in step-by-step how to start your Direct Primary Care practice. I’ve got a ton of great feedback on this book! We’ve had a lot of people reach out and say how impactful the book has been for them, and we’ve helped other doctors launch their own practices.

• I’ve been doing consulting throughout this, so people pay me some money each hour that I consult with them, and I’ve also taken everything I’ve learned and put it into some courses on my website https://startupdpc.com. I really walk doctors step-by-step through how to start and grow their practices, and I go beyond just the words, I show you how to do it physically. I show you how to do it online and how to leverage your Facebook page and other social media channels to grow your business etc.

Challenges and Milestones in Starting A Direct Primary Care Practice

5. What are some of the mistakes you made when you were still starting out with your Direct Primary Care practice? If you had to redo the whole journey, what would you do differently?

• The biggest mistake was I was thinking too small, I should have hired a medical assistant sooner. I thought I could do everything by myself, and I could–I could draw blood, count all the lab samples and the meds, I can answer all the phone calls, and I did that for about 450 patients, and I hired a medical assistant. And as soon as I did that, it freed up so much of my time to market the practice and help me grow my business.

• So if I had to redo the whole journey, I would have hired someone sooner. As a business owner you want to control everything, but sometimes you have to delegate and relinquish that control so you can focus on your strengths to help you grow your business. 

6. Share a few very milestones you achieved in your Direct Primary Care journey.

• One of those big milestones was hiring a medical assistant, another doctor to help me lower the cost of healthcare in Detroit. I’m very happy to share it with my partner who is Dr. Raquel Orlich.

• Another milestone for me is getting to 500 patients, and 200 patients for Dr. Raquel, and now she’s over 250 patients. These are the milestones that we celebrate because we’re actively learning the cost for healthcare in our community, we’re helping patients, we’re liberating doctors from the dysfunctional fee-for-service medical industrial complex system. 

7. How do you see Direct Primary Care evolving over the next 5-10 years? How does the political climate and ever so polar political opinions affect the evolution of DPC? 

• I only see Direct Primary Care growing over time because people hate having to deal with their insurance for their basic healthcare needs. It puts up so many barriers between people and our doctors. Direct Primary Care doctors are problem solvers. We go above and beyond to solve problems for our patients and make our healthcare journey easier. So when you have doctors actively working on behalf of patients, it’s only going to grow because patients see value in that kind of work that doctors provide. 

• As for the political climate, or let’s say medicare for all passes, which does not apply for Donald Trump, or presidential candidate Joe Biden at this time, neither of these political parties want to see medicare for all at this point. But let’s say even if it does pass 20 years from now, the United States government will not be able to outlaw elective procedures. Americans will always be able to opt for paying above and beyond for health insurance, etc. 

• In a nutshell, I don’t foresee paying above and beyond your health insurance for better healthcare experiences through Direct Primary Care or concierge medicine. I don’t ever see that being outlawed in the US.

Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Fee-for-Service

*This section is for patients and doctors that are not yet aware of DPC

8. In a nutshell, what do you think is the major difference of Direct Primary Care practice vs. Traditional fee-for service? 

• The number of patients. Fee-for-service doctors have 2,500 patients a year, and they have to see 1% of their panel each day. So they have to see at least 25 patient visits a day. In our model, we only need 500 patients to have a robust, thriving practice. We make about the same amount of money as a fee-for-service doctor. 

• That being said, I have 5 times fewer patients and 5 times more time for each of those patients. It makes a huge difference.  

9. Why should a patient consider enrolling in a Direct Primary Care practice over the traditional fee-for-service?

• You are going to have 5 times more time with your doctor, you’re going to have your doctor’s mobile number and email address, you’re going to be able to reach out to them whenever you need them and not the other way around. 

• We’re not fitting you into our schedule, we’re making time for you anytime you need us. 

10. If you are explaining about Direct Primary Care to a layman who doesn’t have a medical background, what would be your 2-minute explanation to make him/her understand Direct Primary Care practice?

• We really believe that healthcare should be affordable and accessible for everyone. You should sign up for Direct Primary Care practice if you want to have your doctor’s mobile number and text them anytime you need them. Basically if you want to have a better healthcare experience. 

• My patients have my undivided attention for 20-30 minutes to an hour if they need it. I help them with their medications, etc. We take care of everything. If you want that kind of service for yourself and for your family, we’re happy to help you. We do that to all our patients, we deliver high quality, high value services. 

Favorites

11. Favorite book that talks about Direct Primary Care; and favorite book in general about any topic

• My favorites are the 2 books that I’ve written. Startup DPC and Direct Primary Care: The Cure for Our Broken Healthcare System are available on Amazon. Pick those up, you’ll really understand my ethos, and the ethos of the Direct Primary Care movement. People have a lot of great things to say about them. 

• My favorite book in general about business is Crush It by Gary Vander Truck. If you want to know how to market your business, your Direct Primary Care practice, you can learn a lot from reading Gary V. 

12. As someone who is an advocate of Direct Primary Care practice, what are your favorite resources for Direct Primary Care?

• I would say my website https://startupdpc.com. I really took the time to compile all the resources in the ecosystem and give it to you in a palpable, easy-to-understand, easy-to-digest format. 

13. Favorite bloggers that have the same passion as you when it comes to Direct Primary Care

• I blog a lot about this subject, I haven’t seen anyone “out blog” me, so check out our blog at https://startupdpc.com/blog. See for yourself.  

14. Favorite quote

• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.” –Theodore Roosevelt

Tips for Physicians Who Are Planning to Start Their Own Direct Primary Care Practice

15. Many physicians find it challenging to start their own Direct Primary Care practice. As someone who’s been in the Direct Primary Care business for quite some time now, what do you think physicians should first do when they are starting out? Any tips and/or strategies you highly recommend?

• I really recommend you read my books because I put them all in there. 

• My biggest tip is that doctors think that when they start their Direct Primary Care practice, it’s for everyone. You ask them who’s your ideal customer and they say “everybody”. But it’s not true. You really have to hammer down and hone in on who your ideal customer is. If you don’t, you’re going to try to serve everyone, and your business is going to fail.

Paul Thomas MD has written two books on Direct Primary Care - both can be found on Amazon, here: Startup DPC and Direct Primary Care.

When Starting a DPC Practice, You must be decisive

It’s not the decisions, it’s the decisiveness

When starting your direct primary care practice, it’s not the decisions, it’s the decisiveness. Make a decision and move on! Listen to my most recent podcast interview, here:

• Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tsoe-excerpt-dr-paul-thomas-on-decisiveness-in-business/id668653849?i=1000480912133

• Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/D3duco2lboja2abqjihb6kgmnce

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmuh6XnX_b0

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