My wife's GP Dr just told her she is becoming a concierge practice

[carpetbagger]

48. My last house call was April 2, 2025.

I saw my last patient on April 4.

It wasn't all that long ago. The last time a doctor made a call to my house was my colleague in 1998 when my wife was on pregnancy bedrest, and we did the same for other patients in our practice.

But I agree, we're fossils who can't compete today. The home visit doctors are hedge fund employees whose job it is to run up bills. The VA was a nice place while it lasted, but it's being carved up for the contractors. The doctors who are successful keep ahead because they generate reems of paperwork quickly without doing anything for the patient, just a book report and shift the hard work to the other doctors. And working for a home hospice agency is sketchy, in most cases your job is to enroll healthy people who will live for a while then get the system to do the medical work through the insurance off the hospice. So I'm retired at 55.