When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t. – Thomas Edison.
One year ago, we began a historic journey in the world of medicine and true health care. This amazing journey, which could not have happened without the support of our patients, has changed the way medicine is practiced in the Erie area. In an effort to continue to offer patients the care that we believe they deserve, we converted our practice to a new and growing model of care known as Direct Primary Care. We knew the change would be difficult and scary, but doing the right thing is seldom easy. We made the choice not to reduce the quality of our care and follow what the norm has become in healthcare. Imposed restrictions would have resulted in compromised care, and we refused to compromise. We chose to stick with our primary choice of providing quality care for our patients because we’d rather provide no care than poor care. For true trust to exist, it must be reciprocal. As we all approached this change, there was skepticism, confusion and uncertainty. We took a great risk in an effort to preserve the integrity of our care which was the reason we got into medicine in the first place. And in this past year, we have proven that while maintaining integrity comes at a cost, it also has great rewards. We stayed the course and forged our own road with the trust of our patients behind us. As Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and We — We took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
As we have stayed the course on our journey, more doors have opened and subsequently we are paying it forward by helping other physicians open their Direct Primary Care practices. And as that was taking place, we were able to find other ways to bring our patients financial peace through our wholesale medication, lab services and imaging programs. In staying our course, we have found great satisfaction in being able to offer more to our patients while seeing the patient-doctor relationships suffer in the standard practices of other physicians. As a result, our mission was picked up by U.S. News & World Report, Medical Economics and Direct Primary Care Journal.
We want you to know how grateful and thankful we are for believing in us. We know you by name and we love providing quality, personalized care. We haven’t sacrificed a shred of quality, and in fact, we have made it more accessible in a number of ways. We had a choice either to be part of the problem or part of the solution. We have achieved our goal in becoming a solution despite uncertainty and at personal and professional risk, and for that we are filled with gratitude. So on this very special first anniversary, we want to say Happy Anniversary and on to a healthy future!
Drs. Jon & Harry Izbicki
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