When the System Fails: What Concierge Medicine Reveals About Female Longevity
A conversation with SIP Medical Office reveals why female longevity remains the most overlooked frontier in both healthcare and wealth planning.
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Kevin was nineteen when a simple ear infection changed the course of his life. During military service, he was treated and mistreated by the troop doctor for weeks.
By the time he finally insisted on seeing a specialist, it was too late. The infection had left permanent tinnitus.
It wasn’t a dramatic disease. Not cancer. Not a heart attack. Just an ear infection. And maybe that’s what made it so haunting. Because if something so small could be mishandled, what about the bigger things?
That moment seeded a lifelong suspicion of healthcare systems and years later, his work at SIP Medical Office.
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A Different Kind of Longevity Conversation
I first came across SIP Medical Office in April this year, when they hosted their Health & Longevity Conference in Zurich.
I didn’t know what to expect. Conferences about longevity often feel like a mix of hype and half-baked wellness trends. But SIP’s event was different. Science-backed. Serious. No gimmicks.
Afterwards, I caught up with Anne Nicks and Kevin Bürchler. We found ourselves circling the same blind spot: women’s health. From their perspective - guiding families through complex health journeys. From mine - watching how capital continues to overlook women’s health innovation.
The resonance was immediate. It made me want to understand their model more deeply.
What Concierge Really Means
When I asked Kevin how SIP had evolved, he said:
“Our original focus was helping global families access reliable, high-end international health insurance. But over time, families told us what they really needed wasn’t just insurance. It was help finding the right doctors, navigating incentives, and managing risk across borders. That’s how our concierge model started.”
Concierge is a glossy word. But what SIP does is closer to governance.
They collect every scattered record; labs, scans, family history into one baseline. They design personalized check-ups. They insist on three independent opinions before surgery. They refuse kickbacks.
For families with resources, this independence is not a luxury. It’s protection. Wealth doesn’t always buy better health. Sometimes it makes you a target.
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The Female Longevity Gaps
Kevin didn’t hesitate when I asked where women face the biggest gaps.
“Menopause management. It’s fragmented, less evidence-based, and too often left until late. And then there’s cardiovascular health. Heart disease is the number-one risk, but in women it looks different, sometimes no symptoms at all so screenings miss it.”
Listening to him, I kept thinking about how these gaps mirror what I see in capital flows.
Entire categories of women’s health, menopause, cardiovascular disease, fertility remain overlooked, underfunded, or misunderstood. Families pay the price in both health and legacy.
One story Kevin shared stayed with me: a woman presenting with chest discomfort, dismissed as stress in one country, but diagnosed with heart disease in another. Same woman, same symptoms. Two systems, two outcomes.
A Simple Truth About Healthspan That Changes Everything
Before we finished, I asked Kevin what advice he’d give families thinking about their long-term health. He paused, then said simply:
“Take ownership of your health. No one else will do it for you. And you are the only one who will live with the consequences if you don’t.”
It’s deceptively simple. But also radical. Because most systems aren’t designed for you.
And maybe that’s what connects his story to mine. His tinnitus. My own experiences in women’s health.
Different beginnings, same conclusion: ownership is power. Ownership of data. Ownership of prevention. Ownership of the choices that shape healthspan, not just lifespan.
The Future of Longevity: Data Ownership, Prevention, and Women’s Health
That’s why I am excited to be with SIP in September. This time in London, at their Global Health Conference.
Not because it’s another event on the calendar, but because the conversation we started in Zurich hasn’t finished. The blind spots are still there. The need for ownership is still urgent.
And because the question that sits beneath it all is the same one Kevin learned too young: what happens when the system fails you?
The answer isn’t just more years of life. It’s better ones.
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As someone who is going through menopause super early in life I’m definitely interested in learning more about it.
I moved to concierge medicine 3 years ago and it’s been life saving. Proper diagnoses that I’d been chasing for years. Multiple in depth panels done 2-3x a year. Moving towards excellence and away from “well your labs say you’re fine🤷♀️”. My doc also got me through 2 years of long covid. I shouldn’t have to pay 5k out of pocket annually, and I’m incredibly privileged to do so. Until our healthcare canters our doctors over profit, I honestly don’t see a way out.