The image of healthcare from ancient through modern history is fraught with conflicting images – innovation and success mixed with disease and filthy conditions, new technology and specialized equipment overlapping periods of material shortage and understaffing.  Our image of the twelfth-century midwife or the eighteenth-century home physician may call to mind the terrors of potentially giving birth at home or receiving treatment with no advanced medical care available, but with no hospitals nearby or else no access to them, medical service professionals went far out of their way to provide care and service to their patients by making house calls.  The image of a doctor as a true gentlemen, carrying a black medicine bag and traveling to the bedside of a sick woman or child represents what everyone wishes modern medicine were: all about the patient’s needs.

Changes in technology and the modern healthcare system make house calls a thing of the past – but some doctors are still willing to visit their patients at home, caring for them at their convenience and eliminating the stress and danger of traveling and waiting in the doctor’s office while sick.  Concierge medicine services like EliteHealth offer a range of incredible benefits, including preventative medical services, home visits, and visits to patients’ hotel rooms while traveling.  Because each doctor employed by EliteHealth sees only 500 total patients, they have more time and effort to dedicate to each individual.

Home visits are currently available in 31 US cities.  For more information on concierge medicine, visit EliteHealth’s website.