Why More Black Women in Atlanta Are Choosing Direct Primary Care
- Dr. Lindsey Beauboeuf
- Nov 27, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 26
You’ve been there before.
Sitting in that waiting room for 45 minutes past your appointment time, just to get seven minutes with a doctor who barely looks up from their laptop. You try to mention the fatigue, the irregular cycles, the way your chest tightens when you think about your mother’s diabetes. But there’s already a hand on the doorknob.
“Let’s just check your weight first,” they say.
And you know where this is going.
I left traditional healthcare after years of watching women like you, like us, get seven minutes when you needed an hour. Tired of the system telling me to move faster when what you really needed was for someone to slow down and actually listen.
At MOZAÏK Lifestyle Medicine, we do something radical: we slow medicine down. We blend modern care with Caribbean roots, and welcome faith when you want it. This is care that feels like home.
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MOZAÏK Lifestyle Medicine has been featured in Voyage ATL, highlighting our mission to bring culturally-rooted healthcare to Black and Afro-Caribbean women in Atlanta.
Why Women Are Making the Switch to Direct Primary Care
More Black and Afro-Caribbean women in Atlanta are choosing
Direct Primary Care because they’re tired of the runaround. Tired of insurance denials for basic care. Tired of waiting weeks for appointments, only to be rushed out in minutes.
But here’s the real truth: we literally can’t afford to be sick anymore.
The way things are going, staying healthy isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s survival. They’re taking protections away, cutting benefits, and selling them back to us at double the price. The cost of living keeps climbing. Getting sick means missing work, paying copays you don’t have, and trying to recover while still taking care of everyone else.
With Direct Primary Care, you pay a simple monthly fee and get actual access to your doctor.
Same-day or next-day appointments. Longer visits. No copays eating into your grocery budget. No fighting with insurance just to get your questions answered.
You’re choosing it because prevention is cheaper than crisis. And you’re done settling for care that doesn’t see you.
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What It Actually Feels Like
Here’s what a visit at MOZAÏK looks like:
You reach out through the patient portal because you’re feeling off. Not urgent care sick, but something’s not right. You get in the next day at 10am.
You walk in. We sit down, actually sit, not me hovering by the door. You tell me about the fatigue, yes, but also about your mom’s diabetes, the stress at work, the fact that you haven’t slept well in months.
I speak to you in the language you’re most comfortable in, English, Haitian Creole, or French. We talk about your grandmother’s remedies and what’s actually working. We look at your labs together. I explain what everything means in regular words.
And when you mention you’re trying to eat better but you’re not giving up your rice and peas, I don’t lecture you. We figure out how to make your plate work for you.
Forty-five minutes later, you leave with a plan that makes sense for your life.
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The Stories I Keep Hearing
“They rushed me out.”
“They didn’t believe me.”
“My mom couldn’t understand and no one tried to help.”
“They told me to lose weight before investigating anything.”
I hear these stories from women who find Mozaïk. Traditional care systems fail Black women, especially Afro-Caribbean women. The rushed visits. The cultural disconnect. The dismissal.
If any of this sounds familiar, that’s not on you.
At MOZAÏK, we believe you the first time.
Why This Exists
I built MOZAÏK because I was tired of the compromise. Tired of watching accomplished women apologize for taking up space in the exam room.
So I built something different.
Small patient panel, on purpose. Bilingual care in English, Haitian Creole, and French. Faith-welcome space when you want it. Cultural foods that work with your plate, not against it.
This is care designed for Afro-Caribbean women by a physician who lives it.
What Changes
You stop bracing yourself before appointments. You ask the questions you’ve been holding back. You understand what’s happening with your body. You catch things early instead of waiting until you’re in crisis.
And maybe for the first time, you feel seen. Heard. Believed.
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Because you deserve more than “fine.” You deserve care where all your pieces matter.
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