Three helpful reference tools to learn about the concierge medicine industry (Updated for 2025)
History is important to all of us.
We learn from it and we many of our futures are shaped by it.
A lot has happened in the past 20+ years in healthcare. One of my favorite authors, A. Stanley in his book Deep and Wide wrote "We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. ...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience."
What stands out in that quote is that in all of our careers in healthcare, our place in time today is the accumulation [or drift] of a lot of good (hopefully!) little decisions that added up overtime.
It is virtually impossible to capture every moment of history into one document or onto one page, but we gave it our best shot!
We've been around a while so there's more than you probably wanted to know but Concierge Medicine is so wonderfully colorful and has been shaped and molded by so many people.
Looking back [and forward] it has undoubtedly left an impression [for better or worse -- depending on your viewpoint] on our healthcare marketplace!
We felt it was important this year yet again, to summarize some of the noteworthy moments from over the past 20-years from this industry in three informative and general ways.
First, by memorializing some of the most educational insights and quotations that we have received and collected from Physicians, consultants, outliers, on-lookers and others working in, on or close to the business of concierge medicine.
Second, to have an abridged historical timeline of events and voices that have helped cement the membership medicine models into our vocabulary and our culture.
And third, in an annual report geared to those who have more of a business interest in the space but are not very familiar concierge medicine and want just the highlights.
FOR YOU, FOR DOCTORS,
Editor, Concierge Medicine Today