All About Concierge Doctor

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All About Concierge Doctor
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Synopsis

1. Some of the Best Medical Care Maybe With a
   Retained Doctor
2. A More Practical Health Care System
3. The Private Practice of the Concierge Doctor
4. The Primary Care Physician and the Patient

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Some of the Best Medical Care Maybe With a
Retained Doctor

• Take the example of the patient who needs to
  visit the doctor at least once a month. He or she
  is probably an elderly patient and also needs a
  new or possibly varied prescription for the
  pharmacy monthly. This can all be accomplished by
  phone or by email to the doctor. You also have
  your doctors phone number, so you can ask for a
  house visit at any time of the day or night if
  required. The concept of concierge medicine has
  gained momentum over the past few years and is
  ideally suited to patients living in old age care
  homes who do not always have a resident
  physician.
• There are, of course, pros and cons to this sort
  of service. For example, on the doctor's side,
  most try to see around 2000 patients, say one
  every 15 minutes in a month. medicine. Concierge
  medicine practices keep their numbers down to say
  250. This certainly means that the doctor has
  more time with an individual patient than a quick
  15-minute visit. You are paying a premium fee for
  these services however, a physician can
  concentrate on some individual and personal
  preventative health care with this system. There
  is a lot to be said for this as, in the case of
  certain patients being prone to various
  illnesses, they may be able to obtain some form
  of preventative medication that will help to keep
  fit and well. There are many types of
  preventative medicines on the market as well as
  those scheduled by a doctor however, how and what
  and when to take these is best decided by the
  doctor. You will not get this sort of treatment
  in a 15-minute visit. How to decide which system
  is the best is ultimate a personal preference.

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A More Practical Health Care System

• Private healthcare insurance is available in the
  US but is not really considered more practical
  than the concierge doctor. Also, private
  healthcare does not always pay 100 of the
  medical bill in any event. So, expensive
  healthcare insurance has no advantage over the
  concierge doctor. For example, most doctors will
  not give out their private mobile telephone
  numbers for reasons that most do not make house
  calls and therefore you need to make an
  appointment to visit his rooms. A concierge
  doctor will do just the opposite. You can make a
  call and he will visit you if required. There may
  be some tests to be conducted or X-rays all of
  which he can organize whilst visiting you.
• In the event that a patient may require an urgent
  appointment with a physician there is a good
  chance he might have to wait a week or more
  unless there is an emergency in which case a
  hospital visit may be needed. A concierge doctor
  will respond almost immediately and will even
  visit you over a weekend. Most private physicians
  do not operate over weekends or public holidays
  however, you have paid for your concierge doctor
  to be on call twenty-four hours out of
  twenty-four. These are benefits you will only get
  with this sort of service.
• Concierge doctors can also join a nationwide
  group such as MDVIP. This company which happens
  to be based in Florida operates countrywide. Here
  the doctor will limit his patients to a maximum
  of 600 whilst your private physician will have a
  patient base of over 2000 in all probability. If
  you are traveling country wide and out of reach
  of you own concierge physician, an MDVIP office
  in another state will provide you with the same
  facilities and assign a concierge doctor to
  assist you.

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The Private Practice of the Concierge Doctor

• To begin with you need to seek out a physician,
  who has a concierge practice, and maybe a
  physician you already know is considering this
  option or he already has it. You will need to
  make a financial arrangement for his services
  either with an annual payment or a monthly
  retainer, whichever he prefers. In order for him
  to do this work effectively he has to limit his
  patient base to around 200 patients. A physician
  in a normal practice can see a patient
  approximately every fifteen minutes is able to
  have a patient base of over 2000 patients. His
  hours are limited to the time his rooms are open
  which does not include Saturdays and Sundays and
  public holidays. If he is away on holiday you
  will find a doctor-on-call to take his place,
  someone you probably do not know and who does not
  know you. Your doctor, which you prefer to call
  "you own doctor" is actually a physician who sees
  many other people, as mentioned, ever fifteen
  minutes. There may be exceptions however, he
  generally doesnt remember all your personal
  details unless he is in his rooms. He will not
  make house calls and in an emergency will refer
  you to the hospital.
• The concierge doctor will treat your call in a
  totally different manner. He will visit you if
  required and treat you as effectively if not more
  efficiently. This is because, being committed to
  you he personally knows all your medical
  information. Besides arranging for any medical
  tests to be performed if required, he will treat
  you as his own private patient and provide you a
  service that you cannot fault. Medicine that you
  may require he will readily prescribe for you
  either by email if a prescription for scheduled
  medications is needed or make sure your local
  pharmacy store has a copy of his prescription
  which may be a repeat script for essential or
  chronic medication. You will, in all probability,
  be able to contact him at all times during the
  day or night on his personal phone.

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The Primary Care Physician and the Patient

• In a way, the concierge doctor is a great help to
  senior citizens who may find it difficult to
  travel to and fro to a doctor's rooms. There are
  also senior citizens who are unable to visit a
  doctor for one or more reasons. They may be
  incapable of walking, may be permanently in a
  wheelchair which requires special transport etc.
  In this case some patient care by telephone is
  much more convenient. Take the case where a
  patient is in an old age or frail care home. Many
  of these facilities do not have permanent
  physicians on their staff and to get prescription
  or scheduled medication from a drug store without
  a prescription is impossible. The concierge
  doctor may visit the patient to ensure that a
  certain drug is required after which they
  communicate by email or simply by telephone.
• Besides all the plusses you can enumerate with
  the concierge doctor it is quite a comforting
  thought that you have your own personal
  physician. He will have all your history on tap
  in his computer these days, quite similar to a
  standard healthcare physician. To have these
  facilities brought to you by your own physician
  when an ailment strikes is more than a comforting
  thought, and what are the alternatives?
  Government healthcare is undergoing reform after
  reform and there is presently no finality in this
  program. Many people have signed up for federal
  health insurance (2018) which is a necessary
  program as it covers hospitals, MRI's X-Ray etc.
  and stays in hospitals. There is also a
  Children's health Insurance program.

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The End

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