Dr. Timothy Blain survived lymphoma, a heart attack, COVID pneumonia, and an autoimmune disease that wiped out his B-cells, while still running his Direct Primary Care practice from home. Then he closed it anyway, and calls that decision the opposite of failure.

When a hospital system replaced Dr. Jeremiah Fillo with a nurse practitioner after his salary shifted to RVUs and an evergreen contract demanded he sign or be terminated, he found his footing again inside Direct Primary Care.

In Louisiana, where every Planned Parenthood has closed, Dr. Emily Holt is opting out of Medicare, running a free Tuesday clinic for uninsured bartenders and musicians, and fighting to keep abortion medications from being reclassified as controlled substances.