The future of pediatric care, if not medicine in general in the United States especially,

is going to have to shift. It's going to be similar to the ideas we're going to be talking about

because the current system is failing both patients and their families and the doctors.

Welcome back to the Peace Doc podcast. I am really excited about this episode because I am

inviting one of my former colleagues, Dr. Andrew Elliston, who is a general pediatrician

to talk about something that I don't think a lot of you may have heard of or maybe you have

concierge medicine. Is it the future of pediatrics? Thank you so much for joining me today, Andrew.

You're welcome. My pleasure. It's great to be able to talk to you again.

Well, me and Dr. Elliston were Andrew. We worked together at a private practice when I first

started working as a pediatrician and he went on to start a concierge pediatric practice and so

I really wanted it on the podcast so that we can talk about what this is. Maybe this is something

that you listening may be interested in. Maybe you are a pediatrician or a provider of some sort that

wants to get into concierge medicine. So we really wanted to educate our Peace Doc talk listeners

about what this is, the benefits, and kind of why he went into it. So Andrew, tell me more about

yourself and why you started a concierge pediatric practice. Sure. So I mean, as you know, because we

did work together, I used to work in a traditional office-based practice with a very high volume of

patients and a full workload. And concierge medicine is a tricky term because it means different

things than people. There's no specific definition for it, so it can almost mean whatever you choose

for it to mean. For us in our practice, it really represents the idea that we have more availability,

we can give more attention, and more time for our patients, which results in basically just

providing more thorough care. In the office-based practice, I was seeing 30 to 35 children a day,

and I was responsible for four to five thousand kids in a year, which is busier than some practices

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