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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had an orthopedic give me his personal phone number and take my phone call midday, and let me text X-rays to him to get a 2nd opinion within 1 hour.

I don’t even really expect that but dang that was amazing.[/quote]

+1. My breast cancer surgeon did this. Being able to ask Qs by text opened up important opportunities in my care.[/quote]

It would be nearly impossible for an employed primary care doctor to do this work upwards of 3000 patients. Many are going concierge to bring that down to 200-400 and they do give out their numbers. So based on this thread I anticipate more and more concierge doctors. It seems that’s more the care that both doctors and patients want. [/quote]

Right. The experience of a breast cancer surgeon is going to be different than that of a primary care doctor with 3200 patients. The surgeon is unlikely to be called about requests for refills on meds that require monitoring (but the patient hasn't had a blood pressure on record in over a year), or called at Sunday lunchtime with a request to "get on disability," or a thousand, thousand other things. Their time is treated differently.[/quote]

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