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Warm cozy chairs, representing unhurried time in a DPC micropractice

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What actually makes a direct primary care (DPC) practice different from the clinic down the road? The differences run deeper than just the billing model, and they shape almost everything about how care feels day to day. Patient Panel Size A traditional family medicine physician often carries a panel of well over two thousand patients. […]

What Makes Direct Primary Care Different From a Traditional Clinic

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What actually makes a direct primary care (DPC) practice different from the clinic down the road? The differences run deeper than just the billing model, and they shape almost everything about how care feels day to day. Patient Panel Size A traditional family medicine physician often carries a panel of well over two thousand patients. […]

What Makes Direct Primary Care Different From a Traditional Clinic

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Warm cozy chairs, representing unhurried time in a DPC micropractice

What does a day in the life of a DPC physician actually look like? People are often curious, and the honest answer looks quite different from a typical day in a traditional clinic, in ways that were exactly the point of building the practice this way. Morning: Messages and Prep My day usually starts by […]

A Day in the Life at The Village Family Medicine

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Morning coffee and notebook, a day in the life of a DPC physician

Every year around this time, I see the same posts show up in local Facebook groups: someone scrambling to find anywhere that can fit in a back to school or sports physical before the deadline. If that’s you right now, I want to be straight with you about two things: how membership actually solves this, […]

Kids playing basketball outdoors, representing back to school and sports physicals at The Village Family Medicine