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Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints you have about your doctor and removes them. In my experience, the quality of doctor was incredibly low, however, the quality of doctor will not be super important to you if you are 25-40 years old because you're probably pretty healthy on average, especially the young working professionals likely to be One Medical clients.

If you actually want good medical care, over your lifetime, your best bet is to build a strong relationship with a good doctor. If you also want to never wait, concierge medicine is where you ultimately need to be (doctor is trading off a higher volume of patients for a fee to a small number of patients).

parent karl11 6 years ago

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