Shantanu Nandi

It was great the first five years in practice.

You would have hour physicals with patients.

Patients you're taking care of now tend to be older, sicker.

They take more time.

And so there's more pressure to see more patients who are more complicated.

And so it tends to lead to a lot of burnout amongst providers.

I get this phone call at least monthly from people who are saying, hey, what do you think about concierge medicine?

Should I consider it?

I think on one end, they want to do it for the right reasons, which is, hey, I want to just get back to taking care of patients.

And on the other side, they're going to be taking care of a lot less patients.

And doesn't that mean that more patients aren't going to have doctors?

And so, absolutely, there's a theoretical risk that as more doctors go into concierge medicine, that means that the burden on the remaining physicians is higher and higher.

Morally, you still want to take care of all these folks who have trusted you and pay to come see you and you get to know them and their families.

And so that's the difficulty in the decision when you have to sever some of those relationships.

No question.

I would absolutely do it again.

I am more rested.

I am not as stressed.

I am absolutely practicing medicine the way I feel it should be practiced and the way I want to practice.