‘Concierge medicine’ comes to Charlottesville

For years, Dr. Sam Caughron tried to give all his patients personalized treatment. He’d sometimes help them make a list of goals for the next year — losing weight or lowering blood pressure, for example — and help them find ways to achieve those goals.

But he found it difficult to make sure patients were seeing it through. There were too many patients and too little time to see them. He felt he needed to take on a large patient load to keep his practice robust financially.