Next fad: concierge physicians

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The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports that rise of boutique medical practices. Could it come here?

Today he (Dr. Carlos Caballero) will see a half-dozen patients, spending an hour to 90 minutes with each, and take phone calls from several others.

“It allows me to work better,” Caballero said. “I think they’re getting better attention.”

Welcome to the world commonly called concierge medicine, boutique medicine or, as its practitioners now prefer, “direct practice.”

In it, doctors essentially swap a high-volume, low-margin world for just the opposite.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”