When I began my Internal Medicine practice in 1997, I envisioned providing the same level of care to patients as I provided during my training, spending hours on each case. However, with only fifteen minutes per visit and thousands of patients, I could barely scratch the surface. To address this, by 2001 I became one of the first doctors in the Miami to embrace the Concierge Medicine model.

In essence, all Concierge Medicine practices are the same. The goal is to give more time to fewer patients. My practice for instance, is capped at three hundred patients, and I typically see fewer than three patients per day. This additional time leads to several benefits. See below.