In 1997 when I began practice, I envisioned that I could provide the same level of time and attention to patients as I did during my training, spending hours with each case. Unfortunately, the constraints of a real-world medical practice allotted me only fifteen minutes per patient. I quickly realized that I was unable to connect with my patients and solve their problems.

To overcome this, I became one of the first doctors in the city to embrace the Concierge Medicine model: more time with fewer patients. My practice is capped at three hundred patients, and I typically see less than four patients per day. There are several advantages of the Concierge Medicine over the standard model. See below.