Also called: Direct Primary Care Physician, Membership Medicine Doctor
Primary care doctor who charges patients a monthly or yearly fee for unhurried visits, same-day access and a direct phone line.
Sees eight patients instead of twenty-five, spending 45 minutes with each. You text a patient about her lab results, make a house call to someone recovering from surgery and coordinate with specialists. Some practices charge about $75 a month; others charge thousands a year.
Estimate; depends on membership size and fees.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 11 years after high school. Medical school plus residency in family or internal medicine.
Ways in: Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Chemistry.
Growing faster than average. Growing as doctors leave insurance-driven practices.
Low risk for 10 years. AI handles notes and scheduling; the long personal relationship is the whole product.
Classes: Biology, Chemistry, Business.
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