Long wait times to get a primary care appointment.
Hassles dealing with health insurance.
Quick visits that lack a true connection with a physician, if a patient is lucky enough to even see an actual medical doctor.
Those issues define many of the problems with modern medicine.
They are also what Dr. Vasanth Kainkaryam is trying to eschew with his three-year-old physician practice that has adopted a relatively new and innovative business model: direct primary care.