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I recently started paying for Direct Primary Care. We signed up as seeing a doctor during COVID became even more difficult than usual. It’s definitely a luxury
by wincy 6y ago
I recently started paying for Direct Primary Care. We signed up as seeing a doctor during COVID became even more difficult than usual. It’s definitely a luxury but I pay $100 a month and my wife and I can bug our respective doctors (she has a woman doctor that will only accept women and children patients; my male doctor only accepts male patients) whenever we want. Obviously we try not to bug them all the time and be respectful, but I’m seeing weird spots at 7pm; text my doctor he says don’t worry about it. I’m kind of a hypochondriac — this saves me a trip to the ER. I say I’m pretty sure I have a sinus infection, and the symptoms are similar to one I had last year. He wrote me a prescription for antibiotics, tells me to let him know if it doesn’t clear up.
It feels how I’d expect modern medicine to feel, rather than everything being set up to gatekeep me from interacting with the doctor in any way except for fifteen minutes after paying $150 for the pleasure. The doctor has an incentive to keep us healthy because we’re not paying by the visit anymore.
I love love the direct primary care approach and wish I’d started paying for it sooner.
- pjc50 6y agoEffectively you're paying $100 a month to be treated for hypochondria?
- dannyw 6y agoAlong with potential overprescription of antibiotics, which is a bad thing for the individual and a bad thing for community health. Mayo Clinic says "Acute sinusitis usually doesn't require any treatment beyond symptomatic relief".
- smnrchrds 6y ago> she has a woman doctor that will only accept women and children patients; my male doctor only accepts male patients Is that legal?
- hckr_news 6y agoPerhaps due to religion or culture, the doctor is allowed especially in primary care?
- ardy42 6y ago> Is that legal? IIRC, gynecologists aren't even allowed to treat men, even though they're most qualified to treat certain diseases/problems that males can have (just far more rarely than women). I don't remember the specifics, though.
- smnrchrds 6y agoIs this true? It seems like a decision that was in effect for less than three months only in the US back in 2013 and it was quickly reversed. Has this been reinstated since? https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/why-can-t-gynaecologists-treat-male-patients-1.2790475 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/why-can-t-gynaecologists-...
- JTbane 6y agoYou really shouldn't take antibiotics unless they are really needed... microbes get more resistant to them