Concierge Medicine: Volunteering to Pay More for Health Care? It Seems to be Working

It was a breezy, cool day in early December, and Tom Blue was on a business trip in New York City. Walking a bit too quickly in midtown and unused to the hurried pedestrianism of New Yorkers, he felt a pain in the back of his leg, and noticed under his pant leg a bulging blood vessel.

Pulling out his phone, Blue took a photo of the problem spot, texted it to his primary care physician and asked what to do. Good luck with that, right?