In the news (media articles featuring
Dr. Peikari)
CNN (online edition)
Date: June 30, 2011
Title: Would
your doctor pay for wasted time?
Reporter: Elizabeth Cohen,
Senior Medical Correspondent
Selected quotes: Dr. Cyrus Peikari insisted to his patient,
'Your time is just as valuable, if not more so, than mine.'
Dallas
Morning News (print and online edition)
Date: December 3, 2010
Title: Blue
Cross Blue Shield, Texas Health Resources dispute may raise costs for
Texas patients
Reporter: Jason Roberson
Selected quotes:
"It was a great emotional struggle to
break free from the bonds of Blue
Cross," said Dr. Cyrus Peikari, a Dallas primary care doctor who
switched to a cash-only practice three months ago. "And our patients
made personal sacrifices to stay with us."
Dallas Business Journal (print
and online edition)
Date: September 24, 2010
Title: Concierge care sees growth
Reporter: Bill Hethcock
Selected quotes:
"It's about the autonomy," Peikari
said. "The way it is now, insurance companies can dictate what tests we
can order...I feel the physician patient relationship is a sacred
relationship...."
Dallas Morning News
(print and online edition)
Date: September 24, 2007
Title: Dallas doctor says scaling
back practice better for patients, for him
Reporter: Jacquielynn Floyd
Selected quotes:
"The
first thing you notice about
Cyrus Peikari's office is the quiet....Dr. Peikari gives his patients
his personal cellphone number.... He'll answer their questions by e-mail
There's a pleasantly unaffected,
hospitable quality to Dr. Peikari, but
there's nothing of the New Age trend junkie about him at all. He was
previously chief of staff at Baylor Medical Center at Garland. He
writes textbooks, teaches board certification-review classes and lives
in the Park Cities. "There's no 'cattle call,' no herding them all in,"
he said.
"Big industries have interspersed
themselves between the patient and
the physician," Said Dr. Peikari. "The whole system is collapsing....
"By doing this (concierge practice),
I can actually know my patients as
people. I can be a friend."
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