Why I Started “The Gold Standard Health”

I went into medicine to help people. Cliche, I know, but true. I started working as an employee in a healthcare system, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Soon that enthusiasm would fade as helping people was not as easy as I thought.

Patients are tired of hour long waits in crowded waiting rooms, only to get five minutes of the doctor’s attention.

Patients shouldn’t have to wait months for an appointment or settle for seeing a different provider rather than their own physician. Patient care should be guided by the board certified physician and not the insurance company’s and hospital’s bottom lines. You are not a number— we are not a number. Patients end up with extra cost going to urgent cares and emergency rooms receiving disjointed and subpar care; meanwhile, insurance companies are making billions of profits.

Patients would complain, and there was nothing I could do. I was powerless in the system. I tried still taking my time, getting to know my patients, listening, and working with their insurance to get them the care they deserved. Ultimately, it was not sustainable. I started doubting if medicine was for me. Can I truly help people?

I knew there had to be a way to practice medicine the way my patients deserved.

You deserve to be heard, you deserve to be treated as an individual, you deserve a doctor who knows YOU. I was not able to do that in the traditional model. I worked very hard to become a physician, and I could not give up. So, I did a crazy thing — I quit working for my employer to start working for my patients. I am now excited to be YOUR doctor and deliver Gold Standard quality care.