Setting Boundaries
Drs. Gunther and Haynes talk about setting boundaries in your DPC practice for healthy doctor-patient relationships.
Physicians: Let us rise. Let us lead.
As physicians, we deal with many hardships as our work lives consume us. It’s not that we don’t love our jobs, we do. The problem lies in how we are stuck spending most of our time. Typing, data collecting, and saying “sorry” are how we spend more than half of our already 80+ hour weeks.…
Greenbelt Feature
We recently spoke to Greenbelt magazine. Here is a excerpt from the article: You mean there’s another way to deliver medical care? Norris Krueger “Healthcare is a mess of unintended consequences” – the first words I heard from local family physician and healthcare innovator, Dr. Julie Gunther (www.sparkmd.com). To her, so much of what ails…
Interested in Starting your own Direct Primary Care Practice? Learn How!
If you have ever thought about becoming a direct primary care physician with your own practice, you probably have found that it isn’t easy. Well the blog “Master Startup Checklist for DPC” takes you step by step through the process. Included are resources, legal hurdles, administrative points, logistics, and all of the other ins-and-outs that…
Why You Need a Primary Care Doctor (and we think a DPC Primary Care doctor is the Bees Knees!)
Dr. Julie here, writing my first real BLOG for sparkMD. Number 1: thank you so very much to all of our passionate, kind, excited patients who have helped us have such a wonderful 9 months. Your care ‘wins’, and your satisfaction with this model of healthcare is rejuvenating our love for medicine. There are so many different…
Raising the Bar in DPC Entrepreneurship
It wasn’t an easy road for me to open my own direct primary care practice sparkMD and get to where I am today. There were ups and downs along the way but it has all been worth it as I try to improve the health care system and help as many people as possible. There…
3 Doctors on What Works and Doesn’t Work in U.S. Health Care
This weekend I had the privilege of speaking on an NPR panel regarding the topic of health care in the United States. I was able to be joined by colleagues Rob Stone and Gary Sobelson. We discussed what is going on with health care today and the trends we each are seeing. Giving our personal…
My own Personal Journey to Direct Primary Care
Hear what I had to say at the Direct Primary Care Summit in Washington D.C. The article “Embracing DPC Takes Dedication, Sacrifice Says Physician” by Michael Laff summarizes and discusses my speech. At the summit, I discuss the story of how I built my practice from the ground up, why I switched, and more. This…