Who are these medical VIPs?

So who pays $1,500 a year to have a doctor who is available by phone or email 24/7? I figured it’s a perk for the person who drives a Mercedes and vacations at exclusive resorts. I was wrong.

The two physicians I interviewed found that their patients run the entire gamut of the socio-economic scale, from painters and pensioners to professors and presidents.

When Dr. Dwayne Aboud was going through the extensive evaluation process for MDVIP-affiliated physicians (only one in 12 applicants succeeds), he was asked to list 100 of his current patients that he considered most likely to transfer to his new practice.