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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think doctors that do concierge medicine have more control of their hours and avoid burnout and they get paid cash instead of insurance. I know an OB/gyn who switched to concierge - now she does mostly menopause and women’s ‘wellness’ , no longer does OB, and only the most minimal surgeries - now she has a great lifestyle and really great $$[/quote]
Concierge medicine is a ton of extra work, essentially on call all the time for your customers, who often want tests and/or medicines that are not medically indicated. The pay is only about 20% more. I do not need 20% more for the 150x the pain the ars it would be.

As to the person suggesting PA or NP or OT/PT: the salaries are no where near 250k, which is the bare minimum salary for the bottom 5% of physicians.  Plus, the work hours are essentially the same as a doc, and they are not in control of their hours, they work for the docs, and are used to fill in schedules for doctor vacations, etc. They have to ask us permission to be off. Their training requires only 2-3 years but they max out at about 130-180k. In addition, PA/PT/OT school is expensive. There are no merit scholarships as there are at the majority of the top-25 medical schools. Even some of the T50-60 schools have partial merit scholarships for top applicants. Spouse and I each got merit money for one year of medical school 24 years ago; there is much more merit available as well as need-based aid now! There is none for PA/NP/OT/PT.

-Happy primary care doc making $345k for 4 days a week which is full time, plus one weekend shift every 6weeks. [/quote]

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