Today we’d like to introduce you to Rachel Boram Park.
Rachel, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I was born in South Korea but grew up in Hong Kong with wonderfully attentive parents who had a successful kitchenware business that they wanted to pass along to my brother and me someday. However, after helping treat a burn patient on a school charity trip in Nepal when I was 14, I decided that I wanted to be in the medical field instead of the kitchenware business. I was accepted into the selective combined BA/MD program (Honors Program in Medical Education) at Northwestern University in Chicago and grew to love living in the US with its advanced and cutting edge medical care. I did my internship in beautiful San Francisco, where I met my wonderful husband, who was working as an attorney close by.
We moved to Rhode Island, where I completed my residency in Internal Medicine at Brown University. After working for three years of post-residency at an academic hospital, we returned to my husband’s hometown, Dallas. We have juggled raising two rambunctious but delightful daughters between two very busy careers. I have been in Dallas for five years now and after working for the big hospital systems here, I wanted more flexibility and independence so I opened up my own practice in April 2020. I obviously didn’t anticipate a once-in-a-century pandemic to coincide with the launch of my new practice, but it has kept me quite busy!
Has it been a smooth road?
When you first start out in practice, other doctors, who, by nature, tend to be a bit risk-averse, would often say, “Don’t open up your own practice, there are a million ways you can fail.” Therefore, I initially sought the comfort and stability of salaried positions, where other people who would take care of the business and operational aspects of medicine. However, the focus of some practices on production and volume, which admittedly is rewarding and works for some doctors, did not afford me the flexibility and freedom that I wanted to spend time with patients and give them the kind of attention that they truly needed. Now that I have my own practice, I love being able to spend as much time with patients as needed and to dictate my own hours. It hasn’t been that long since I went solo, but notwithstanding the challenges presented by this epidemic, I am extremely happy with my decision and look forward to growing my practice.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Highland Park Concierge Medicine story. Tell us more about your practice.
My practice consists of three main segments: (1) a traditional internal medicine practice that accepts commercial insurance; (2) a subscription-based concierge practice that offers more personalized, dedicated, and around-the-clock care; and (3) a cosmetics practice (e.g. Botox, Voluma, Kybella) that I have mastered over the course of ten years now.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
I think with insurance companies moving towards high-deductible plans. Patients are going to look for alternatives offering similar or lower costs without sacrificing the quality of care. For these patients, a subscription-based concierge practice maybe that alternative. Also, as everything opens back up and people return to the workplace and go out as they did pre-COVID 19, I anticipate people to resume (or start trying) minor cosmetic procedures. We’ve been under a lock-down so why shouldn’t we resurface looking fabulous with a little bit of Botox?
Contact Info:
- Address: 3607 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 270
Dallas, TX 75219 - Website: www.highlandparkconcierge.com
- Phone: 214-375-6262
- Email: www.highlandparkconcierge.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/highlandparkconcierge
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