Dr. Jihan Ansari built a waitlist of ten patients from Facebook posts, then went viral with a single TikTok, 'I'm the doctor who doesn't take insurance,' that flooded her new Direct Primary Care practice with calls while she sat in jury duty with no cell service.

When corporate ownership bought the Direct Primary Care practice Dr. Josh Chow spent five years building, he did not take a new job. He and his wife spent just over $100,000 in donated equipment, loans, and grit to open Ohana Medical instead.

When their clinic closed overnight after federal legislation defunded its parent organization, three physicians lost 13,000 patients in weeks. Half of their $50,000 startup budget for Open Arms Primary Care came from strangers on GoFundMe.