In this heartfelt message, Dr. Janell Sosa shares one of the toughest challenges she faces as a physician—telling patients that sometimes, there is no treatment other than letting a viral illness run its course. Watch as she discusses the emotional side of practicing medicine and the importance of setting honest expectations in patient care.
Why Employers Are Choosing DPC Over Traditional Health Insurance
Discover why employers are choosing Direct Primary Care (DPC) over traditional health insurance models in this episode of the My DPC Story Podcast by Dr. Maryal Concepcion featuring DirectMed’s Neer Patel.
Dr. Maryal Concepcion sits down with Health Insurance Advisors and business partners Neer Patel and Angel Saucedo to discuss how Direct Primary Care is revolutionizing healthcare for patients & employers.
Direct Primary Care is an Innovative alternative path to Insurance driven Healthcare.
Dr. Maryal Concepcion – My DPC Story Podcast
Typically, a patient pays their doctor a low monthly membership and in return builds a lasting relationship with their doctor and has their doctor available at their fingertips.
Neer & Angel share their Direct Primary Care stories
Neer Patel and Angel Salcedo share their journeys and the significant impact DPC has had on their practices and clients.
They talk about the benefits of the DPC model, including:
- a personalized patient-doctor relationship
- comprehensive healthcare
- more access to your doctors
Learn how DirectMed DPC has expanded across Central Texas (clinic locations here), providing exceptional care while shielding patients from the broken traditional healthcare system.
Discover how Virtuous Benefits, DPC Health Plans, co-founded by Neer and Angel, integrates DPC memberships into ACA-compliant health plans, offering employers a cost-effective alternative without network restrictions.
Healthcare Memberships for all
Whether you are looking for a health plan as an individual, a family or an employer looking to cover your business. We can help!
*Directmed DPC can help in Austin and Central Texas & VirtuousBenefits.care for needs across the country.
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Follow Maryal Concepcion’s MyDPC Story to hear firsthand stories from dedicated physicians and enthusiastic patients who have embraced DPC.
Visit: https://www.mydpcstory.com/
Dr. Janell Sosa Has Joined DirectMed DPC – NB!
Meet Dr. Janell Sosa
Family Physician
New Braunfels Clinic
Dr. Janell Sosa is a Board Certified Family Physician who has been practicing in New Braunfels since 2018. She was born and raised in Fredericksburg, then received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas State University. It was at Texas State that she met her husband, Shane, whom she married in 2012.
Dr. Sosa first learned about Direct Primary Care in her fourth year of medical school and knew it was ultimately how she wanted to practice medicine. After completing residency at The University of Oklahoma, the pressure to start paying back those crushing student loans was high. She decided to put off the dream of practicing DPC for a few years for what she thought was a more “stable” career move. After a few years, however, it became clear that the mainstream model for practicing primary care was just not how she wanted to spend her career. She found that the traditional model of fifteen minute visits, seeing 18-24 patients per day, was just not allowing her to deliver the high quality personalized care that she knew her patients deserved. It was then that she reached out to the wonderful team at DirectMed DPC and together they found a way to make her dream from so many years ago into a reality.
Dr. Sosa enjoys getting to know her patients as individuals, and becoming part of their path to healthier lives. She takes care of people of all ages, from newborns on up. In addition to the standard scope of Family Medicine practice, Dr. Sosa also has interest and experience in women’s health, common mental health issues and she also performs a range of small procedures in the office (laceration repairs, skin biopsies, mole removal, etc).
Outside the office, Dr. Sosa likes spending time outdoors with her husband and their two sons Noah and Owen. As a family they love spending time at the river, going on hiking trails, and spending time with extended family who also reside in New Braunfels.
Medications Are Key For Weight Management
Dr. Suzy Lessing talks about the importance of using medication to help with weight management but how she always personalizes and minimizes medication for patients in general.
Dr. Suzy Lessing shares
Most of my patients know that I really love to stop medications.
I have a less is more attitude towards medications and I love cleaning up a medication list and eliminating things that are not necessary.
That said as an internal medicine doctor I feel that medication is also critically important to keeping certain health conditions under control and improving health.
So for example diabetes high blood pressure asthma medications are really important in controlling these diseases and reducing the risk for poor health outcomes down the road the disease of obesity is just like that medication is critical in treating this and helping with weight management and reducing the risk for other problems down the road like cardiovascular disease and a number of different kinds of cancers.
I use medication to treat obesity but just like with when I treat asthma I don’t have all of my patients on the same exact medication they don’t all get the same inhaler prescription from me.
I take a personalized approach.
Everybody is different and a different medication might be right for one person whereas something like an injectable you’ve heard about might be right for other people but it’s important to really do my due diligence and know what’s right for each patient.
Need help losing weight? Dr. Lessing can help!
Dr. Lessing’s Weight Management Program is a monthly membership for adults and is $129 / month.
Available in Texas & via telemedicine in South Carolina.
Elimination Diet! What’s That?
Could food be causing your illness?
Many individuals struggle with unexplained health issues, such as rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, and autoimmune diseases, that often go undiagnosed despite initial medical tests.
Dr. Simmons explains how and why an elimination diet works.
Eliminating inflammatory foods from our diet for several weeks and slowly reintroducing them back can help us identify foods that we should permanently remove from our diet in order to help us be at our optimal health.