Featuring Dr. Manuel Vogt of Texas DPC on the My DPC Story podcast Dr. Manuel Vogt photo: Voyage San Antonio A Texas physician couple built two Direct Primary Care clinics, funded a historic renovation with tax credits, and grew to a full panel. Here is how. When Dr. Manuel Vogt talks about leaving the insurance system, he keeps coming back to one word: renovation. Not the kind with paint and permits, although there was plenty of that too, but the larger project of taking what already works...

Dr. Nyasha Spears When Dr. Nyasha Spears walked into a mandatory 4 PM meeting that had been called with less than four hours notice, she already knew something was wrong. Her century-old community clinic in downtown Duluth, the legacy practice founded by Dr. Rudy nearly a hundred years earlier, was being closed by the corporate hospital system that had absorbed it. She had 36 days to figure out the rest of her career. What happened next is one of the most important DPC origin stories you will...

Dr. Jihan Ansari If you've ever wondered whether you can leave the insurance-based system and build a thriving direct primary care practice without a massive marketing budget, a perfect business plan, or even total certainty about what you're doing, Dr. Jihan Ansari's story is for you. Dr. Ansari is the co-founder of Harbor Direct Primary Care in South Orange County, California, where she practices alongside her husband, Dr. Pedram Ansari. Her path to DPC wasn't paved with a polished...