Aimee Ostick, MD

Aimee Ostick practices direct primary care at Health and Healing DPC in Los Angeles. She built her practice around a model that strips insurance companies and bureaucracy out of the relationship between doctor and patient, and her office does not accept any form of health insurance. Instead she keeps her patient panel smaller than a typical practice, which means fewer patients each day and more time with each person and family she sees.

That philosophy shapes how she approaches primary care more broadly, an old-fashioned style of medicine focused on quality care for the whole family rather than volume. For someone in Los Angeles looking for a doctor who has room in the schedule to actually listen, that is the idea behind her practice.