How to Grow a Direct Primary Care Practice at Six Months: What to Do When You Are Getting Only One or Two New Patients a Month - Part 1

DPC Life: Direct Primary Care Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 34m

What do you do when you're six months into a Direct Primary Care practice, doing all the right things, and the patients still aren't coming fast enough? Dr. Ruth Solomon opened April MD Direct Primary Care in Babylon, New York after more than a decade in the traditional system, an hour-and-a-half commute to the Bronx, and the kind of burnout that had her dreading work every morning.

She found Direct Primary Care while researching ways to leave clinical medicine altogether. Now she is six months in, charging a flat $149 a month, adding one or two patients a month, and doing the groundwork…