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How I Focus on a new model of health care
After working 10 years in a traditional musculoskeletal practice, Dr. Leonard Kaplan started a venture aimed at preventive medicine and wellness. Kaplan, a nonsurgical spine and sports medicine specialist, left a longtime job at Buffalo Spine & Sports Institute to start a concierge medical practice: Osteopathic Wellness Medicine of WNY . Concierge medicine, sometimes called VIP medicine, is a newer model of care where patients pay an annual fee to receive customized care and preventive wellness services. Patients contract directly with...
read moreConcierge Medicine – Charting a Difference Course
Concierge medicine is a term that has been coming up a lot lately, but that doesn’t really mean it’s new. It is actually quite old, and modeled after what physicians were like years ago, when they came to your home when you were sick, and knew everyone in your family. Now many doctors are stepping out of the system to chart their own course in patient care. One example is Dr. Leonard Kaplan of Osteopathic Wellness Medicine of WNY. Dr. Kaplan, a physiatrist, focuses on rehab and pain management in treating spinal and limb pain, chronic...
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