Doctor, patient, period.

Brentwood MD is a private physician practice in Brentwood. Each of our physicians cares for two hundred members, never thousands. We don’t bill insurance, we don’t own the labs or the imaging we send you to, and we take no fee for a referral, so nothing in your plan is there because it carries a margin. What’s left is enough time to know you well, and to see around corners.

Most of us met medicine through the sick-care model: a few minutes, once a year, for an entire life, in a system built to manage disease rather than prevent it. The people in it are not the problem. Its arithmetic is. We built a practice with different arithmetic, for people whose health goals are as ambitious as their business goals, and who intend to use the time it buys.

How it begins: a call with our membership manager, then a visit to meet your physician. Nothing is signed, and nothing is paid until after that meeting, and there is no long-term contract. Members will tell you what it is like; we would rather you heard it from them than from us.

Aaron is an EO Nashville member. If you would like to compare notes, email him directly at awenzel@brentwoodmd.com, or inquire about membership at brentwoodmd.com

FORUM TOPICS

• The physician-patient relationship, and what happens when there isn’t one. Thirteen years in an emergency room, and what arrived there that did not need to. The talk that has produced more members than any ad.
• Healthcare vs. sickcare. Why the system is built to manage disease rather than prevent it, why the people in it are not the problem, and what a practice built the other way around declines to do.
• 90 is the new 60. How you feed your body, how you move it, and how you recover: the three levers that move healthspan, without the supplements and gadgets that do not.
• How to read your own numbers. A1C, PSA, lipids, testosterone, the ones a forum of men over forty ask about most, what they can and cannot tell you, and which ones are worth tracking for a decade.
• Hormones after forty, for men and for women. Testosterone, menopause and hormone therapy: what the evidence supports, what it does not, and how to ask a physician the hard question. (Dr. Waddey, our first internal medicine physician, once she is settled.)
• Your health as a business asset. For a founder with people depending on them: blind spots, downtime, the family’s health when you are the one everyone leans on, and what “a physician who knows you” changes when something breaks.