Phil Browne, FNP

I am a father, a loving partner and lover of my home state of Maine. I've spent my summers running charter boats on the coast of Southern Maine all my adult life and I dream about snow days in the mountains all year long. I've explored most corners of the state, I grew up in Alfred and have called Kennebunk home for the past 17 years. I am also a family nurse practitioner. ​ I was drawn to the profession out of a desire to have a meaningful way to help others but had no misconceptions about the barriers the fee-for-service healthcare system creates at providing the care I wished to provide. Corporate healthcare is incentivized by RVUs (revenue generating units) and the pressure to see as many patients as fast as possible; leading to impersonal, rapid exams with excessive documentation to satisfy insurance reimbursements. The current system makes it so hard to practice good, quality care but it doesn't have to be that way. I wanted to offer quality care that was easy for the patient, easy to understand, easy to access and I wanted it to be affordable. Direct primary care satisfies all those goals. So now I'm doing it.