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The Primary Care Physician and
the Patient
• In a way, the concierge doctor is a great help to senior citizens who may find it
difficult to travel to and fro to a doctor's rooms. There are also senior citizens
who are unable to visit a doctor for one or more reasons. They may be
incapable of walking, may be permanently in a wheelchair which requires
special transport etc. In this case some patient care by telephone is much
more convenient. Take the case where a patient is in an old age or frail care
home. Many of these facilities do not have permanent physicians on their staff
and to get prescription or scheduled medication from a drug store without a
prescription is impossible. The concierge doctor may visit the patient to
ensure that a certain drug is required after which they communicate by email
or simply by telephone.
• Besides all the plusses you can enumerate with the concierge doctor it is quite
a comforting thought that you have your own personal physician. He will have
all your history on tap in his computer these days, quite similar to a standard
healthcare physician. To have these facilities brought to you by your own
physician when an ailment strikes is more than a comforting thought, and
what are the alternatives? Government healthcare is undergoing reform after
reform and there is presently no finality in this program. Many people have
signed up for federal health insurance (2018) which is a necessary program as
it covers hospitals, MRI's X-Ray etc. and stays in hospitals. There is also a
Children's health Insurance program.