Want to know how a family practice doc runs a cash-only practice, sees only 16 patients a day, goes home at 5, and takes home more than $250,000 a year?
Read all about it here.
After Brian Forrest, MD, finished his family medicine residency program at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 2001, he received a lucrative salaried job offer from a major academic medical center in the Raleigh-Durham region. But in the fine print of the contract, Forrest spotted an unsavory requirement: see a patient every seven-and-a-half minutes or lose 30 percent of his annual bonus. Despite the prestige of the organization and the lure of job security, Forrest declined the offer.
"You don't have time to look at a patient in seven-and-a-half minutes, much less get to know them," the 37-year-old Forrest says. "It's all a blur." Instead, Forrest, in 2002, opened a solo practice in Apex, a suburb of Raleigh, and never looked back.
Forrest's practice, which he named Access Healthcare, is cash-only. He does not accept insurance or Medicare and won't file reimbursement paperwork for patients. He sees, at most, 16 patients a day and goes home by 5 p.m.
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