Dr. Chan sees changing healthcare field drastically affecting patient-doctor relationships

Phoenix, AZ February 23, 2010:  Dr. Kevin Chan, a practicing Phoenix physician, recently brought patients together to tell them things in his office were changing. Instead of hustling to see as many patients as possible a week, Dr. Chan had decided to add a new service (concierge medicine) that limits his practice to 600 patients, total. He called this new practice Rejenesis.

“The time has come for an alternate model of healthcare delivery in the 21st century,” Dr. Chan told his patients. “One that changes from the fast-paced, volume-based, assembly-line, impersonalized, and reactive conventional medicine to the time-devoting, quality-driven, patient-centered, individualized, and proactive functional physiologic medicine that focuses on prevention and wellness, addresses the whole person, body, mind and spirit, incorporates complementary and alternative medical therapies, and promotes optimal health far beyond the mere absence of illness.”

With the changing healthcare field, skyrocketing premiums and slow reimbursements patients and doctors alike are seeking market based solutions and alternatives. According to Dr. Chan, misdiagnosis and “symptom suppression” has saturated the medical industry.

“We will focus on the patterns of imbalances rather than the insurance code diagnoses,” Dr. Chan told patients. “We are used to naming the disease, blaming the disease, and then taming the disease with medications that you often take chronically. The reality is that these chronic diseases are often caused by hormone deficiencies, nutritional deficiencies, and toxin excesses. They are not simply caused by medication deficiencies.”

Dr. Chan, with the help of SignatureMD, added a new medical practice that is a bit more personal. Instead of trying to manage the care of 3,000+ patients, SignatureMD physicians focus their care and attention on 300 to 600 patients and improve their patients’ health and enjoyment of life.  By dedicating their attention to a smaller patient population, SignatureMD physicians are able to communicate on a regular basis with patients, something that is lacking with standard practice physicians.

Dr. Chan uses a personalized form of medicine called Functional Physiologic Medicine, which focuses on primary prevention and treatments designed to address underlying causes instead of symptom suppressions. Dr. Chan’s new practice allows for same day appointments, tightly coordinated care with specialists, his personal cell phone information, as well as treatment for visiting friends and family.

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SignatureMD offers patients comprehensive executive physicals, thorough preventative healthcare, same day appointments, on-time extended appointments, house calls, and after-hour availability. These services are normally not provided in standard primary care practices.  

For more information regarding concierge medicine, SignatureMD, or Dr. Kevin Chan, Rejenesis, please visit http://www.SignatureMD.com/chan  or email Dr. Chan at kchan@signaturemd.com. For interviews with Dr. Chan, one of Dr. Chan’s patients, or a SignatureMD doctor, please contact Dr. Chan or Matt Jacobson at matt.jacobson@signaturemd.com.