Rebekah Bernard, MD

08/03/2025

What an honor to be elected to the Florida Medical Association Board of Governors as Treasurer and to serve with these incredible physician leaders.

09/22/2024

"Access" alone is not enough - patients deserve access to high quality, physician-led care.

07/13/2024

Meet Rebekah Bernard, MD of Gulf Coast Direct Primary Care, our featured doctor of the week! Join us on My Story as we explore the benefits and future of . Don't miss this insightful conversation!

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12/27/2023

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/opening-a-new-practice

Rebekah Bernard, MD, a family physician and owner of Gulf Coast Direct Primary Care, discusses how she opened her practice, and how you can open one of your own.

11/20/2023

"For me, it's worrisome when a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant is being perceived as a physician," said Dr. Rebekah Bernard, a family physician in Fort Myers, Florida, who is also the outgoing president of Physicians for Patient Protection, a group that advocates for physician-led care. "We don't have the same training or education. Patients should know who's taking care of them so they can make informed decisions about their health."

When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title—"Dr."—and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front.

06/01/2023

My new book, a sequel to Patients At Risk is available now!

/PRNewswire/ -- Rebekah Bernard, MD, President of Physicians for Patient Protection (PPP), a non-profit advocating for physician-led care for all patients and...

10/06/2022

"Rather than inventing inappropriate new roles for team members to increase productivity, health care consultants would be wise to focus on the true causes of physician burnout: not enough face-to-face time with patients and unnecessary administrative burdens. While incorporating a medical scribe may help, so would returning to old models like transcriptionists, paper charts, and direct patient care. Above all, before consultants and administrators try to “solve” the problems of physicians, stop making assumptions. Instead, just ask us."

Rather than inventing inappropriate new roles for team members to increase productivity, health care consultants would be wise to focus on the true causes of physician burnout: not enough face-to-face time with patients and unnecessary administrative burdens. While incorporating a medical scribe may...

07/21/2022

A book by two primary care doctors details risk of promoting nurse practitioners’ and physician assistants’ care as “just as good” as physician care.

07/20/2022

Honored to present Catherine Kowal-Montecalvo with the 2022 Collier County Medical Society Physician of the Year award!

06/03/2022

As published in the USA TODAY and Yahoo Money.

Social media and news sites are filled with headlines expressing discontent about the health care system, particularly a sense that doctors don't listen and don't care. Reading these articles hurts my heart because, as a physician, I know doctors do care deeply. But a broken health care system has t...