Jared Wojnicki, DO

"In my 7 years as an attending physician, I have spent most of my time working in immediate care centers. I found this work to have significant benefits and drawbacks. While it was convenient to perform “shift-work”, with no responsibilities after-hours, I missed the continuity of care that I had always envisioned having with my patients. Furthermore, I was exposed, in an unfortunate manner, to the less than savory business end of healthcare. Being in the role of an employee, rather than a practice owner, I often felt pressure from the “higher ups” to require unnecessary testing, treatment, and follow-up appointments of patients so that we could bill more of them and their insurance companies. I found this environment very uncomfortable and highly stressful, thus I chose to leave in the fall of 2016. In the most recent 15 months, I have been working for MBS Envision and Quantum Anesthesia. MBS Envision is an outstanding company, which provides modified barium swallow studies to patients in (primarily) skilled nursing facilities. I travel with a team comprised of myself, a speech language pathologist, and a radiology technician, bringing a mobile fluoroscopy machine to SNFs all over the Chicagoland area. This experience has made me privy to an experience that most other physicians never will be, and has deeply enriched my understanding of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). Though it is unconventional, I am very grateful for having had this position, as I am sure it will pay dividends throughout my career. With Quantum Anesthesia, I accompany a Certified Resident Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) to multiple dental offices all over greater Chicago providing varying levels of anesthesia for patients receiving dental implants and other types of office based dental surgeries. Both of these opportunities have been a wonderful break from the “rat-race” experience of the immediate care centers, as well as a chance to broaden my skills, knowledge, and experience as a physician. By now, you certainly appreciate the many chapters that are bound in the book of my medical career. However, I believe the most exciting and rewarding chapter is about to be written. I am truly elated to be running my own medical practice, free of insurance headaches, and with the ultimate goal of providing extremely ethical, high quality primary health care to a group of outstanding patients for years to come."

"​No visit will be scheduled for less than 30 minutes.  Many will be longer, and certain cases (like a procedure or first visit for depression) will even be an hour or longer.  Of course, you are the patient and you’ll never be forced to stay for the entire visit length.  If we can address your concerns to your satisfaction in less than your visit length, you may always leave earlier.  My aim is to make you feel comfortable, relaxed, and never rushed through your visit.  Of all complaints I’ve heard from patients about other providers during my career, “he(she) hardly spent any time with me!” is – by light years – the most common.  The primary reason we can offer longer visits is that we limit the practice size to around 600 patients per doctor.  If there is reasonable demand for membership from much more than 600 patients, we will seek to add another doctor to the staff.  Most insurance based medical practices have 2000 patients or more per doctor, which is one reason why appointments are scheduled for 15 minute intervals and often double booked, so that you only spend 8 minutes or less with the doctor, face to face."