Dr. Josh and Katherine Chow of Ohana Medical There is a version of DPC that a lot of physicians dream about when they first hear about this model. A small, physician-owned practice. A doctor who knows your name, answers your texts, and actually has time to sit with you. A space where the philosophy is to take care of the physicians and providers so they can take care of the patients. Dr. Josh Chow, DO found that version of DPC. He worked inside it for five and a half years. And then, one day,...

Your clinical training got you here. But running a thriving Direct Primary Care practice takes more than excellent medicine. You went to medical school to take care of patients. Not to reconcile payroll reports, chase down unpaid invoices, or stare at a profit-and-loss statement wondering if you're actually making money. And yet, here you are. If you've opened a Direct Primary Care practice, or you're seriously considering it, the clinical side probably isn't what keeps you up at night. You...

(L to R) Drs. Shayne Poulin, Shannon Connolly, Amy Tressan of Open Arms Primary Care In December 2025, Dr. Shannon Connolly, Dr. Shayne Poulin, and Dr. Amy Tressan did not choose to leave their patients. Their patients were taken from them. Melody Health, the primary care practice where they had spent years building something they believed in - comprehensive, trauma-informed, reproductive health-integrated primary care - for one of Orange County's most underserved populations closed almost...