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Next fad: concierge physicians

   January 7, 2008

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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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