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Direct Primary Care & School Consultation. Need a physician for your school?

Dr. Marie Jean-Baptiste is a nationally board-certified Pediatrician licensed to practice in Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas

01/31/2026

This store owner allows kids to pick whatever they want in the store when they get good grades at school.

This is what community looks like in practice.

When a neighborhood invests in its children, everyone rises.

At Rising Star Pediatrics, we try to show up in that same spirit here in Palm Beach County. Every year, we provide free back-to-school physicals so students can start the school year ready, confident, and not held back by access or cost. Each month, our Walk with a Doc campaigns turn health into something visible, local, and shared.

Healthcare is not only what happens in an exam room. It is presence. It is consistency. It is choosing to give back where you live and serve.

We are grateful to be part of a community that believes in its kids and proves it through action.

01/29/2026

Andrew Scott’s work is a form of conceptual mixed-media art that he often refers to as "breaking the fourth wall. Scott frequently mentions that his work explores escapism, loneliness, and empowerment. By making the characters interact with the frame itself, he symbolizes the act of breaking out of one's own perceived boundaries or "frames" in life.

Traditional medicine, like traditional painting, follows strict rules: one medium, one method, one way of seeing.

But mixed media breaks that contract. It pulls the real world into the canvas and says the frame is not the limit.

That is exactly what our kind of medicine does.

Not confined to exam rooms.

Not reduced to billing codes.

Not rushed into fifteen-minute fragments.

It borrows from prevention, education, home visits, telemedicine, community, and time itself.

The canvas changes.

The tools multiply.

The patient becomes part of the work.

Sometimes progress is not a new technique.

It is the courage to refuse the old boundaries.

01/25/2026

Some things reveal entire systems when you hold them in your hand.

Two clothespins. Two philosophies of care.

The older clothespin was built to last. Fewer parts. Repairable. Made for repeated use. It comes from an era when pediatrics meant house calls, continuity, and a doctor who knew the family as well as the child. Time was not a billing unit; it was the medium of care.

The newer clothespin works, but only just. Optimized for speed, cheap replacement, and volume. When it fails, you discard it. No fixing. No memory.

Current insurance-based medicine followed the same arc as the new, shinier clothespin: mass production, throughput-obsessed, disposable encounters. Efficient on paper, brittle in practice.

Direct care is closer to the old clothespin. Slower. Stronger. Designed to hold under real weight. Built for the long haul, not the quarterly report.

01/24/2026

Density isn’t just physics. It’s our philosophy.

In this demo, dense water sinks and pushes lighter beads upward. No intent. No choice. Just structure deciding what moves and what gets displaced.

Insurance-based medicine is dense with billing, codes, and authorization. That weight pulls time and attention downward, forcing care, continuity, and prevention to the margins.

Direct Primary Care changes the density. Removes the heavy layers and what matters clinically settles into place.

Change the structure. The flow follows.

01/21/2026

This is Yoann Bourgeois’ “Success isn’t linear”, which captures a hard truth: progress looks like falling until you understand the system.

Direct Primary Care works the same way. From the outside, Rising Star Pediatrics can look inefficient. Fewer visits. No billing codes. More time per family. It looks like a step back only if you’re counting the wrong things.

By removing insurance friction, we build the trampoline. Early access, continuity, and real physician time catch problems sooner, reduce crises later, and let families rebound stronger.

Not every climb is straight up. Sometimes the fall is part of the design.

01/17/2026

Most people assume the shortest path is the fastest. In traditional insurance-based medicine, that usually means more steps, more waiting, and more delay.

The physics displayed in this video teaches a different lesson: In the brachistochrone problem you see here, the fastest path between two points is not a straight line. It is a curve that dips early, accelerates sooner, and arrives first. By leaning into gravity early, the system gains speed that no straight line can match.

Rising Star Pediatrics is built on the same principle.

Traditional pediatric care follows the straight line. Call the office. Wait on hold. Speak to a nurse. Schedule an appointment days later. Only then reach the pediatrician.

We take a different path.

Families have direct access to me from the start. Early contact, early guidance, early reassurance. Problems are addressed when they are small, not after they have gathered momentum. That early acceleration saves time, stress, unnecessary visits, and downstream costs.

It looks unconventional, just like the curved track does. But it works for the same reason.

When care accelerates early, children get better faster and parents regain peace sooner.

Rising Star Pediatrics is not the shortest path.

It’s the fastest.

01/15/2026

In nature, competition is the default. Scarcity breeds conflict. Even closely related species often cannot coexist without friction.

And yet, scientists recently documented something unexpected. Deep inside Sulfur Cave on the Albania–Greece border, researchers found a massive spiderweb spanning more than 100 square meters, housing over 111,000 spiders from two species that normally prey on each other. Instead of cannibalism, the spiders formed a stable, cooperative ecosystem. The environment changed the rules. Scarcity disappeared. Behavior followed.

The lesson is not about spiders. It is about systems.

Rising Star Pediatrics is designed around the same insight. Most pediatric practices are built on artificial scarcity: Limited appointment slots. Gatekeeping. Long waits. Fragmented communication. Under those conditions, care becomes adversarial. Parents feel ignored. Clinicians are rushed. Everyone competes for time.

We decided to remove the scarcity part.

Rising Star Pediatrics is not built on volume or triage. It is built on conditions that allow care to coexist, stabilize, and scale calmly.

By capping panel size and offering direct access to your child’s pediatrician, priorities shift. Communication now becomes cooperative rather than defensive. Questions are addressed early. Small concerns do not escalate into urgent visits. Parents are not competing for attention because attention is structurally available.

Just like that cave ecosystem you see there, when the environment changes, behavior changes with it.

Good systems do not rely on better behavior.
They rely on better design.

01/08/2026

In many clinics, messages wait because visits must come first.
That is a system issue, not a lack of concern.

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https://rspeds.com/

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