Dr. Paul Thomas is a board-certified family medicine physician practicing in Corktown Detroit. His practice is Plum Health DPC, a Direct Primary Care service that is the first of its kind in Detroit and Wayne County. His mission is to deliver affordable, accessible health care services in Detroit and beyond. He has been featured on WDIV-TV Channel 4, WXYZ Channel 7, Crain's Detroit Business, and CBS Radio. He has been a speaker at TEDxDetroit. He is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine and now a Clinical Assistant Professor. Finally, he is an author of two books; Direct Primary Care: The Cure for Our Broken Healthcare System and Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice.

Highlights:

•Detroit as the center of outbreak in Michigan and how Dr. Thomas copes up with the situation as a frontline

•Dedicating his life in rectifying the disparities in health care, Dr. Thomas' inspiration why he pursued medicine

•What Dr. Thomas loves about family medicine that got him hooked throughout the years

•Being looked down as a resident, difficulties in gaining respect from peers and other challenges he has to go through his residency

•Pursuing Direct Primary Care and working outside the insurance-based system

•His life as a teacher, entrepreneur, and physician

•Enjoying a lot of things in his practice and other fun ways he exercises to balance his life and work

•Stepping back and starting the independent practice; some of the ways he advises if you are burning out in the corporate world

•Giving attention and solution to depression and anxiety among doctors

•Consistent communication with you physicians in dealing with the Pandemic (Covid19)

"Demanding outcome data on infection rates, the mortality rate from elective surgeries and all the things that really obscured from the general public, those should be made searchable in one database where we can compare hospital against a hospital-based on their outcomes data if they want this bailout money"

•Better working conditions

•Better protection for doctors and nurses

•Price transparency and outcome transparency

Links:

https://www.plumhealthdpc.com/

IG Handles:

@plumhealthdpc