If you have ever wanted insights on how a membership-based medicine practice runs inside an academic medical center, this is the episode for you. Dr. John Paat with Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic in Durham, North Carolina shares his experiences from one of the world's most renown academic medical facilities. Growing up watching his father care for patients as a PCP was very instructive and influential in bringing John into concierge medicine. Now as a concierge physician at Duke, do patients of his concierge clinic receive preferred treatment and access to care? Does his practice have a leg up on independents because of the academic affiliation? Are his opportunities to teach students and residents highly compensated time? Listen to this insightful episode for those answers and much more.