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The Patient Perspective: Why patients thrive when the whole care team has the gift of time.
If you’ve spent any time leading or practicing in medicine over the last few years, you already know the heavy weight physicians carry every single day.
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You entered this field to build meaningful relationships and change lives. But between overflowing schedules, administrative demands, and a system that constantly asks you to do more with less, protecting the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship feels like an uphill battle.
It’s completely understandable why any talk around care models or changing roles can spark strong feelings. Your standard of excellence, your training, and the trust you’ve earned with your patients are sacred—and they should be.
That’s why we wanted to approach this topic with the nuance, respect, and care it deserves this week.
In this week's latest podcast episode, we take an honest, research-backed look at how forward-thinking concierge and membership practices are thoughtfully integrating Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs)—not to replace the central, irreplaceable role of the physician, but to support the team and lift the burden.
The latest research shows something really encouraging: when NPs and PAs handle routine preventive visits and chronic care management, it frees up critical bandwidth—giving the entire practice more time to listen, connect, and deliver the unhurried care patients crave.
In this episode, we gently walk through:
- What the Data Actually Says: Insights from the AAMC, Health Affairs, and BLS on workforce trends and visit quality.
- Protecting Physician Bandwidth: How elevated team support helps physicians focus on complex care without burning out.
- The Patient Perspective: Why patients thrive when the whole care team has the gift of time.
We’d love for you to take a listen with an open heart and tell us what you think.
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Key Takeaways from Newly Released White Paper:
The State of Concierge and Consumer Medicine, 2026
Guest Article Contributors (October 12, 2026) - Prepared jointly by Vector Medical Group and Baker Donelson, with commentary from Dana Jacoby, CEO & Founder of Vector Medical Group; Gary W. Herschman, Shareholder and Co-Chair of Baker Donelson’s Health Care Transactions Group; and Timothy C. McHale, Associate in Baker Donelson’s Health Care Transactions Group.
The new white paper explains why membership-based primary care, direct primary care (DPC), and adjacent consumer-health businesses -- such as longevity clinics, biomarker testing, hormone optimization, and medical weight management -- are drawing sustained attention from private equity firms, family offices, insurers, and consumer-health strategics.
For physician-owners, the paper is a practical guide to protecting and building value, whether or not they intend to transact.
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- More New Jobs and Positions In Concierge Medicine Practices: CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NC, PA - Browse All Job Listings
- Concierge Medicine Today (CMT) Launches Exit Value Calculator: Know What Your Practice Is Worth Before Someone Else Tells You
- HeartBeam Initiates Pilot Study of First On-Demand 12-Lead ECG Patch to Detect Ischemia Outside the Clinic
- Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician Wanted — Established Concierge Practice in Westport, CT
- Join SDSM's Concierge Medicine Program: Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Physician, San Diego, CA
- GLP-1 telehealth spends $200 to get a patient. Here's what that buys them -- GLP-1 telehealth brands spend $150 to $250 to acquire a paying patient and it works because they built a system, not a campaign. We broke down the full funnel, the pricing, and the exact playbook, then compared it to what concierge medicine members and DPC patients actually pay. If your marketing is still based on hope for the referral, one social media post a week and a "mid" or "meh" (as the kids say) website, this is the marketing knowledge gap you need to close. (Read More)
- MDVIP’s 2026 Patient Satisfaction Survey Shows Record Member Loyalty and Stronger Year-Over-Year Satisfaction
- Why Cutting Your Price Won’t Fill Your Panel. It’ll Close Your Practice.
- Houston Methodist Seeks a Concierge Medicine & Executive Health Physician
- The Physician’s Guide to Understanding Concierge Medicine Inside a Health System
- Opinion: “Your Membership Fee Won’t Qualify for an HSA. Your Practice Can Still Win.” (Guest Contributors)
- Inside the “Adaptive Primary Care” framework and the thinking behind it. (Podcast)
- CMF 2026 Keynote, Speakers, Workshops & Breakouts Announced - October 15-17 in Atlanta, GA USA
- Hot TOPIC: Why pushback might mean you're doing it right: What to Say When Someone Calls Your Practice "Elitist" (Read More)
- The real reason patients get upset (Read More)
- The one danger more dangerous than opposition (Read More)
- A story about a Saturday nobody asked her to give (Read More)
- What Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out can teach healthcare about marketing (Read More)
- Latest Job Opportunities (Summer 2026)
- Legal & Op Ed Commentary
- Marketing Workshops, October 15-17
- Membership Medicine 101 Workshop, October 15-17
- Annual industry conference, Atlanta, GA USA - Get tickets
- Become a Sponsor at CMF 2026 - Pricing & Application
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CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
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Your patients know what to do. Why don't they do it?
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Every membership practice rests on a quiet assumption: that more time and better access will translate into better follow-through. Dr. Kyra Bobinet has spent her career studying why that often doesn't happen, and what physicians can do about it.
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CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
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Inside the “Adaptive Primary Care” framework and the thinking behind it. (Podcast)
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Dr. Charles “Trey” Williams didn’t set out to disrupt pediatrics. He set out to be the kind of doctor his own kids deserved. After a decade in corporate, insurance-driven practice and a stint inside a health-tech startup, Williams reached the same conclusion many physicians on this podcast have reached: the system was built for throughput, not relationships, and pediatrics runs on relationships.
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CONCIERGE MEDICINE TODAY · RESEARCH BRIEFS · PUBLISHED SINCE 2007 · OBJECTIVE
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Peer-cited briefs on the business, economics, workforce, and policy dimensions of concierge and membership-based medicine.
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The Future of Membership-Based Healthcare — CMT Research Brief
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"Everyone assumes concierge medicine is exploding. It's not. It's under 2%. 8,000 to 12,000 practices out of 1.1 million doctors. That's the truth. Here's the other truth: a quarter of those practices are now specialists, cardiology, endo, OB-GYN, even oncology. Small numbers. Massive signal. That's how you know a model is becoming the standard, not the size of it, the direction of it."
— Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today
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2026 State of Concierge & Membership Medicine:
Market Size, Physician Workforce, and Practice Economics
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"Stop measuring concierge medicine by market share. Wrong metric. Measure it by who's borrowing from it. Specialists are building subscription models off it. Hospital systems are launching premium-access programs modeled on it. Even inside Direct Primary Care, physicians are reaching for the same core idea: a direct relationship with the patient, no insurance company in between. Fewer than 2% of U.S. physicians practice concierge medicine today. And the rest of healthcare is quietly getting graded against a model that small. That's not a niche. That's a reference point."
— Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief, Concierge Medicine Today
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The Physician’s Guide to Understanding Concierge Medicine Inside a Health System
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A Field Guide to Professional Organizations in Membership Medicine
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What Makes a Concierge Medical Practice Successful? — CMT Research Brief
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Concierge Medicine vs Direct Primary Care: A Structural Comparison
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Helpful Legal Questions Concierge Physicians Can’t Afford to Skip
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