About
Mark Hilmy, MD.
Internal medicine physician. Eight years in acute hospital care. Now building the kind of primary care practice he wishes his patients had found years earlier.
The hospital taught me what primary care could prevent.
I spent the first chapter of my career caring for hospitalized patients in the acute setting, heart failure exacerbations, uncontrolled diabetes, strokes, complications of long-untreated hypertension. Most of these admissions had something in common: they didn't have to happen.
The system isn't broken by accident, it's broken by design.
Insurance-driven primary care pays physicians per checkbox, not per outcome. So visits get shorter, schedules get more crowded, and the relationship between a patient and their doctor, the single most important variable in long-term health, gets compressed into seven minutes.
Direct Primary Care is the alternative.
When you bypass insurance, you bypass the bureaucracy. I have a smaller panel of patients. I have time. You can text me. You can reach me. I can actually manage your chronic conditions instead of reacting to them when they spiral.
What I want for my patients.
I want you to never need the hospital. I want you to feel like you have a doctor again. I want to catch the diabetes before it becomes a disability, the blood pressure before it becomes a stroke, and the weight gain before it becomes a heart attack. That's the whole job.
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