[Richard Mcadam]

In the UK, few and far between, and about half of those are limited in the services they can provide due to lack of resources, ie, diagnostic equipment etc, our NHS system is paid for through taxes, a bit like a pre-payment system, which most people rely on due to the high cost of going private.

[IMA-HelenT]

This may be a good place to start, the “Starving Cancer Doctor” list : Jane Mclelland was on a webinar and has a list on her website of UK doctors that will look at alternatives for treating cancer, they are sure to be independent (at the least in the way they treat patients) https://www.howtostarvecancer.com/doctors/

[Richard Mcadam]

Thanks Helen, I’ll take a look.

[Tina Rowbottom]

It is difficult to find a good independent or functional medical doctor. IMF.org, functionalmddirectory.com and americanacademyoffunctionalmedicine.org are resources but available doctors are not plentiful or widespread yet. There are none within a 50 mile radius of me.

[Richard Mcadam]

Thanks, i’ll take a look.

[IMA-HelenT]

Thank you for sharing this list and I wanted to add a note:

Three IMA Doctors are taking on new patients:

Dr. Michael Turner

https://imahealth.org/providers/a-michael-turner-md/

Dr. Saleeby

https://imahealth.org/providers/jp-saleeby-md/

Dr. Mollie James

https://imahealth.org/providers/mollie-james-do/

For direct primary care doctors https://jointhewedge.com/ through the Stand for Health Freedom organization. They have a network of over 500 physicians, including direct primary care and direct specialist care practices from across the United States.

[madridjunctionpm-me]

Live in rural Maine, so choices are limited, but when my dear old doctor retired in September I was determined to find a DPC choice. At first, it looked as if that would mean a 1-2 hour drive, and even those practices had long waiting lists. (My sister in Portland was having the same problem, as she’d also been a patient of the retiring doctor. She had lots more DPC choices, but every one she called had endless waiting lists, and some were rudely impatient even to have to deal with another request.) I was just about to bite the bullet and sign up with a practice 90 minutes away, when a doctor in my local hospital got fed up with the BS and jumped ship. I was one of her first DPC recruits! Got a neighbor of mine to sign up too. At least 2 of this doc’s former hospital colleagues were inspired and followed her overboard, so now there are 3 independent practices on one hallway of a beautiful old renovated school building in town. They are sharing resources–e.g. a “lab” space, bathroom, waiting room–but otherwise are established as separate entities.

(My new doc never stops smiling!)

[Dr. Wawa]

I have found that the core issue in becoming an independent physician is NOT WORKING FOR A CORPORATION that tells one how to practice medicine and not billing third-party payers. If a person can afford to pay cash to a doctor, he or she should just do it for the sake of unadulterated good medical care. Medicare pays physicians very, very poorly, for instance, and corporations which employ physicians tell them how to practice medicine via written instructions describing how to diagnose and how to treat a given diagnose a medical complaint, what treatments are acceptable, what drugs are acceptable etc.

AAPS (the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons) has a list of independent physicians on their web site.

I see a concierge doc for hormone replacement therapy as he is better versed in how to do this than the average doc working for a corporation. He charges $250 up front and $75/month whether you see him or not during that month. He takes phone calls and emails and responds quickly.

[Richard Mcadam]

I can’t comment on US healthcare, I’m a UK citizen, I only comment on what I see here.