Beyond the Exam Room
Podcasts, interviews, and featured stories exploring Direct Primary Care, personalized healthcare, and patient-centered medicine in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to Beyond the Exam Room — a collection of podcasts, physician interviews, and featured stories from True Insight Direct Care. Through these conversations, we share our passion for Direct Primary Care, affordable healthcare solutions, preventative medicine, and building meaningful patient relationships throughout Raleigh and the surrounding North Carolina community.
Featured Podcasts
In this episode, Dr. Courtney Barrett shares how Direct Primary Care is redefining the patient experience through longer visits, personalized attention, and more meaningful relationships.
She discusses how removing insurance barriers can make healthcare more affordable, accessible, and comprehensive, while offering insight into the mission and approach behind True Insight Direct Care in Raleigh, NC.
News Articles
In this episode of the Stay Broke Podcast, Randy Kerr sat down with Courtney Barrett, founder of True Insight Direct Care to talk about her journey from traditional healthcare to building a direct primary care practice.
We break down how the DPC model works, why it’s gaining traction, and how it can benefit small business owners. We also dive into major healthcare topics including statins, GLP-1 medications, and the importance of preventative care.
This episode is all about taking ownership of your health while understanding the business side of modern healthcare.
Dr. Courtney Barrett, founder of True Insight Direct Care in Raleigh, NC opens the May theme “The Tools You Use” by redefining what tools mean in a Direct Primary Care practice.
As a D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) providing osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) alongside full-spectrum primary care, she explains how OMT serves as both a valuable clinical tool and a pathway for new patients to become DPC members.
Dr. Barrett also discusses how her husband Jeff helped build efficient operational systems, from phlebotomy setup to prior authorizations and employer contracting.
The conversation also highlights how HSA and FSA funded memberships, direct employer relationships, and pairing DPC with health shares have become powerful strategies for growing and sustaining the practice.
Article in The Wake Weekly and DPCNews.com, January 2025
Before the doors of True Insight Direct Care officially opened, this early feature highlighted Dr. Courtney Barrett’s mission to bring personalized healthcare and patient-centered care to the Raleigh, NC community through the Direct Primary Care model.
Drawing from her lifelong experience as both a physician and patient—including living with type 1 diabetes since age 9 and later navigating kidney failure, dialysis, multiple sclerosis, heart failure, infertility, and a dual pancreas-kidney transplant in 2023—Dr. Barrett offers a uniquely compassionate perspective on accessible primary care and preventative healthcare.
Together, Dr. Barrett and Husband, Jeff have built a Direct Primary Care practice focused on affordable healthcare solutions, meaningful physician-patient relationships, and healthcare advocacy for individuals, families, and small businesses across the Triangle Region of North Carolina.
