No, don’t need answer fast. In fact, take your time.
There’s a show on TV where some uber-rich family has a doctor on staff, and I assume drama and hijinks ensue.
My question for you kids with a couple hundred thou in student loans still outstanding:
What salary would you demand for being a kept physician?
My extended family of about 20 just here in Atlanta has the usual breaks/cuts/infections/rashes. You’ll need to be available to them 24/7. I’m thinking it’s reasonable to wait a couple of hours for you, so you don’t have to live in our shed out back, but don’t finish dinner if you get a call, ya know?
I suppose it’s fair to let you practice locally and make a few bucks since we can’t all always be in distress, but you’ll have to kick little Sally or Mrs. Goldberg to the curb when that special phone rings.
Boutique (concierge) medicine, where primary care physicians charge a fee (usually annual) for the privilege of being in their practice, is actually quite common.
In my area, the first guy I know who did it charges $1500/couple/year. What you get are unhurried visits, cadillac attention and personal consultation and/or co-following should you land in the ED or the Hospital or something. I think he limits his practice to about 500-1000 patients/year, so if you want to be the only patient, I guess he’d do it for $750,000. Maybe less, since he could cut out a lot of office overhead with only one patient.
My own Boards are in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, and I’ve often wondered idly if I could pull off what you are suggesting. The problem is that no one is a jack of all trades, so the best I could do is point you to the best people and help hook you up if you need something critical. And of course I could help you sort through choices and make sure you aren’t getting screwed over by bad advice. I’d be tempted to take care of any one family for $250K plus a generous benefits package as long as I could take vacation and golf days…to be honest I’d be doing other stuff on the side such as writing or whatnot. But for medical undivided attention, you’d be my main squeeze. I don’t think it would be challenging enough for the front end of my career, but now that I’ve been there and done that for a fabulous thirty years or so, I’m ready to just be your medical Boy.