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

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92. Back in the early days of HMOs, our pediatrician hated the paperwork.

He said it took hours, half the time they wouldn't pay, and he decided to give patients a break. If we paid cash, he charged a lot less and it saved him tons of time and money. We were happy to do it, the best doctor we ever had for our sons.

These days the clinics around here are owned by someone, like Duke Hospital's medical arm, or Moses Cone Hospital. It's just a money racket, as far as I can see. Still taking patients but there's no real care or concern for the patients. Get 'em in, give them prescriptions, get the next one in. Nice enough, but I know they just don't care anymore.

I can see many people not going into medicine in any role in the future, it's pretty heartless, takes many years and tons of money, and you work like you're on a factory floor.