As the founder of Gentile Family Direct Primary Care, Natalie Gentile, M.D. is able to practice medicine in a way that fits her best. With the lack of third-party interference and the ability to spend significant time with each patient, she is working to bring back the relationship-centered approach that was characteristic of the way medicine was practiced generations ago. Short wait times, unparalleled access to physicians, affordability, and customized care are just some of the attributes of the direct primary care (DPC) model that attracted Dr. Natalie to adopt it as her chosen entrepreneurial career path. Currently, she is in the process of joining forces with other DPC doctors in the region to form Direct Care Physicians of Pittsburgh, which is set to debut in January 2022.
As Natalie Gentile, M.D. was planning to move back to Pittsburgh with her family, she began searching for a way to practice medicine that fit her desire for a patient-focused approach. The type of comprehensive and wellness-centered care that she was interested in seemed to be disappearing from modern clinical medicine. Through conversations she had with her mentor, she discovered the direct primary care (DPC) practice model. By cutting out insurance companies and third parties from influencing medical decisions, this alternative format for primary care medicine meant that Dr. Natalie could focus her time and energy on lifestyle guidance and preventative measures to help her patients get well.
In 2019, shortly after returning home to Pittsburgh, Dr. Natalie opened her own DPC practice - Gentile Family Direct Primary Care. Building a business from scratch would prove challenging as physicians do not learn any of these skills in medical school. Nevertheless, as she dug into all of the details of starting a new company, Dr. Natalie quickly discovered a love for entrepreneurship that she didn’t know she had. As a board-certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, Dr. Natalie is free to run her practice in a way that allows her to spend as much time as needed with her patients while keeping their overall health and well-being front and center.
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