GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Dr. Emily Anderson-Elder carefully considered her patient's symptoms:

- Frustration over limited time spent with patients.

- Inordinate amounts of time inputting required data.

- Side effects including high levels of stress.

The patient?

Herself.

The remedy?

"I did the research and found direct primary care," said Anderson-Elder of Windsor.

And in June she joined Dr. Frank Morgan at Balance Health in Greeley, a direct primary care clinic he founded four years ago in Greeley.

Leaving her family practice at UCHealth Medical Clinic in Windsor after seven years wasn't an easy...