Direct Primary Care Doctor Dr. Brian Blank grew up in the small town of Waterford, PA, delivering newspapers before leaving for the midwest to study broadcast journalism at the University of Missouri. He then spent the next several years working in cable news in both Atlanta and New York. In New York, he met his wife and father-in-law, a longtime primary care physician at the Cleveland Clinic. After many late-night conversations with him, he decided to switch careers to pursu

In the same week, Dr. Delicia Haynes lost her biller to a hospital buyout and opened a letter cutting her reimbursement by 40 percent. She was eating ramen in her own clinic at 10pm. She talks about switching to Direct Primary Care while still depressed, taking the Beck Depression Inventory every Sunday, and sitting at her mother's hospital bedside for a year without her income changing.

Direct Primary Care Doctor Dr. Ken Rictor has been the founder, owner and physician for Scotland Family Medicine DPC. He graduated with honors from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1985 and completed his residency at the Washington Hospital in Washington, PA in 1988. Dr Rictor converted his practice of 25 years to a DPC model in 2014 in an effort to enhance the patient experience and reduce overall medical cost. He is a Crossfit Level 1 trainer and may never retir

A 10 mile non-compete stopped Dr. Christa Springston from even making house calls from her own home, so she took a protractor to the map and opened Health Springs Direct at 10.02 miles. She works out of one 12 by 17 foot room in an executive suite outside Atlanta, and folds FAA flight physicals for airline pilots into the membership.

Direct Primary Care Doctor Dr. Kenneth D. Qiu (pronounced Q like the letter or the Bond character) is a board certified family physician and the founder of EuDoc DPC. He received all his higher education locally in Virginia— graduating magna cum laude and as a Monroe Scholar from the College of William and Mary, receiving his medical degree from VCU School of Medicine (formerly Medical College of Virginia) where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and comple