Luxury Care/Concierge Care
Articles, slide shows, and lecture outlines re luxury care/concierge care (including involvement of academic medical centers)
Slide Shows (See also Universal Health Care/Single Payer System page):
*Luxury Primary Care and Academic Medicine
Comprehensive version of slide show covering the links between luxury care clinics and academic medical centers, along with a general overview of concierge care, medical tourism, retail clinics, relevant ethical and legal issues, etc.
Physicians in retainer practice: national survey results – Wynia, 2005
Slide show with results of survey of physicians in retainer practice, Dr Matthew Wynia, 2005
Articles (See also Universal Health Care/Single Payer System page):
Concierge practice and academic medicine – Ann Int Med LTE, 9-16
Letter to the editor in response to article on concierge practice
*Luxury Medical Care – Ideological Debates in Family Medicine.pdf
Detailed book chapter describing the spectrum of concierge care and opposing the development of luxury practices
lux p care – NEJM lte.doc
Letter re luxury primary care and universal health care coverage in the US
luxury p care and acad med – JGIM.pdf
Article covering the link between luxury primary care clinics and academic medical centers
Medical Tourism and Luxury Care Ltr – Southern Med J
Letter re medical tourism and recruitment of wealthy foreigners to luxury U.S. practices – Southern Med J
professionalism and retainer practice
Short book chapter from Professionalism in Medicine: The Case-based Guide for Medical Students
Retainer Practice – Virtual Mentor.doc
Article on the ethics of retainer practice
External Links (See Universal Health Care / Single Payer System page)