Rediscover Your Purpose When You Embrace Direct Primary Care

Interview with Dr. Paul Thomas – 416

In this week’s episode, Dr. Paul Thomas explains how to embrace direct primary care and rediscover your purpose.

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DPC is a return to relationship-based medicine where physicians can spend meaningful time with patients without insurance barriers. Preparing to open his  DPC practice during residency, Dr. Thomas grew Plum Health from simple house calls to five clinic locations while maintaining the personal touch that drew him to medicine.

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Building a DPC Practice from Scratch

Dr. Thomas started with house calls and 30 patients, subletting office space in a former police precinct. He built the practice incrementally, adding at-cost medications and labs in month one, purchasing an EKG machine by month three, and growing to 575 patients over 2-1/2 years.

His approach focuses on the “minimum viable product”, starting lean and adding services as the practice grows. Key elements include:

• monthly memberships ($10 for kids, $50 for adults),
• unlimited access to physicians via text, email, phone, and face-to-face visits, and,
• 90% savings on labs, medications, and imaging through direct relationships with vendors.