"Welcome everyone! I want to thank you for your interest in Paradox Health and tell you a bit about myself. If you want to know what brought me into medicine, it was the combination of my anatomy class and a trip to the Peruvian amazon in high school. I had no family in medicine, but for me, the path to becoming a physician made the most sense. I went on to Grand Valley State for my bachelor’s and then followed with the MSU College of Human Medicine to attain my MD. I did my residency in Greeley, Colorado at North Colorado Family Medicine. My training there was excellent and is owed in large part to an exceptional group of mentors and faculty on staff there. My wife and I relocated to Silverton, Oregon for my first job out of residency in the Summer of 2016. And although we cherished our time there, we made the tough decision a year later to move back to our family in Michigan where we felt we were being called. That year and a half of work in the health care industrial complex opened my eyes even further to the deficiencies of modern health care. It’s clunky, bloated, and mis-incentivized structure was not something that excited me. I always felt terrible when a patient would get a large medical bill despite having insurance, or was told the most effective therapy for their malady was not an option. At this juncture I decided to form Paradox Health and start taking part in the DPC model of health care. It is something I have thought about since my first year of medical school, and ultimately what I have always wanted to do. It just took the right prodding, and the right people to tell me I wasn’t crazy."
