Find an ideal clinic near you or create your own!
Define Your Community Vision:
Read Dr. Wible's Seven Steps to a Successful Community Clinic
Explore Seven Innovative Models:
1) Benefactor Model:
A New Model of
Charitable Care: The Robin Hood Practice
2) Ideal Micropractice:
Going Solo: Making
the Leap
Going Solo: One
Doc, One Room, One Year Later
What's
a Micropractice?
3) Cash Model:
Cash
and Carry Healthcare
4) Community-Designed Practice:
The Community-Focused Family Medicine
Clinic
5) House Call Model:
House Calls Bring Relief to Physicians,
Patients
6) Free Clinic:
Common Ground Health Clinic
Video
USCD Student-Run Free Clinic
Audio
7) Retainer Model:
Dr. Knope's Concierge Medicine Blog
Video
Pick one. Create a hybrid. Design your own. The above models are templates. These innovative clinics restore the sacred patient-physician relationship while revitalizing neighborhoods and rebuilding our nation's diseased medical system from the bottom up. I believe health care is an ethical obligation of a democratic nation and our community-designed practice is merely a science experiment in democracy.
Especially For Doctors:
Afraid? Burned out? Angry? Exhausted? Thinking of giving up medicine? This retreat saved my career: Self-Care on the Path of Service. And it's offered at an idyllic hot springs resort in the Oregon forest. In 2010 I will offer "Create Your Ideal Practice" retreats biannually at this resort.
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"Do something wonderful, people
may imitate it."
—Albert Schweitzer, M.D.