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> It will totally change your relationship with modern medicine

I'm glad you really like your primary care doctor, really, but no it won't. They're still slaves to the broken system they work for (insurance) and they're still overworked and underprovisioned.

> Not only will that doctor actually care about your health continuously

I think "care" is being used too generously here. Their job is to _be aware of_ your health. They don't "care" about it, necessarily.

> but he will

I can't help but point out this use of "he"

> who will treat your issues with similar care once you mention that Dr. SoAndSo referred you as his patient

This is again not true, but again, really happy this is your experience.

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> > but he will

> I can't help but point out this use of "he"

What about it?

Are all doctors men?

No, of course not — but the correct English third-person nominative singular pronoun for a human being of unknown sex is ‘he,’ just like the correct English third-person possessive singular pronoun for a building is ‘her’ and the correct German first-person nominative definite article for ‘Mädchen’ is ‘das.’

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with using correct English.

Ok buddy :)

Don't know why you are getting downvoted. You are spot on.

I think the down votes are because "Direct Primary Care" doctors opt out of the insurance system. That's the point of the model. They collect monthly subscription fees instead dealing with your insurance company.

Granted, if they want to refer you to anyone else, your insurance may be involved, but not a few of them also have arrangements with those "health sharing ministries" where the patient cash pays for any procedure with the assistance of other people in the health share, which again saves enormous amounts of money by skipping the insurance system.

Those "health sharing ministries" are a complete scam. They take your money and provide you nothing. Sort of like church and the donation plate, only they purport to provide a genuine service in the health care field.

Are there studies bearing this out? I and many of my friends have been part of them at various points and have had tens of thousands of dollars of care provided through them.

I've also had both experiences that correspond to and directly oppose your take on the church donation plate, so I'm curious if you're aware of data about this, or if we're just comparing personal experiences.

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