The Physician Business Podcast
with Amanda Sabicer, MBA, SHRM-SCP
The Physician Business Podcast is your weekly resource for building, growing, and sustaining a profitable private medical practice-without burning out.
Imagine trying to buy a car without knowing the mileage, safety rating, features, or even what makes one car better than another.
That’s basically what your prospective patients are doing when they choose a clinician.
They don’t have a neat comparison chart for your expertise, judgment, or wh...
You finally make the big move: quit the job, start the clinic, change everything.
You’re excited, relieved, maybe even a little smug.
And then…the opinions arrive.
Suddenly the people around you are questioning the plan, pointing out the risks, and making you wonder whether you’ve lost your ...
Physicians spend years building their careers. Medical school, residency, fellowship, long shifts, missed weekends… with the assumption that eventually, all that work leads somewhere you actually want to be.
But what happens when the career you worked so hard to build suddenly stops working fo...
Marketing your clinic can feel overwhelming, especially when there’s no shortage of advice telling you what you should be doing next.
There’s always someone telling you what you should be doing next, whether that’s getting on another platform, spending money on ads, posting more, or handing t...
What does a business consultant actually do when you hire one?
That’s usually the part people are curious about. Do we start with your numbers? Your marketing? Your schedule? The team issue that’s been slowly driving you nuts?
A big part of my job is figuring out what’s actually keeping your ...
You left corporate medicine to have deeper conversations with your patients. So why does the thought of a longer visit make you break out in a cold sweat?
Corporate medicine trains you so well to prize efficiency, that even after you leave, the old operating system keeps running in the backgro...
Have you ever imagined opening your own clinic… only for your brain to immediately start writing a disaster movie starring guilt, financial ruin, and the loss of your "safe" paycheck?
But what if the path that looks safest may be the one costing you your health, creativity, and love for medici...
Identifying who your ideal patient can be the difference between loving your clinic and dreading Monday morning.
So if you regularly leave the clinic feeling completely drained and wondering, Why does this feel so hard? the problem may not be the workload.
It may be misalignment.
Some patien...
You spent over a decade training to be an excellent clinician. You know how to diagnose, treat, and genuinely care for your patients. So why is your practice’s clinical schedule half empty?
If you've started your own practice and the patients aren't showing up the way you expected, you've prob...
When you worked for someone else, HR was where people went when they got hired, fired, promoted, or needed to complain about the office thermostat.
But once you’re running the clinic, HR becomes something much bigger — and much blurrier.
Suddenly, you’re making decisions about hiring, pay, cu...
Starting or growing your own clinic is exciting, but it can also feel like a lot.
You’re putting yourself out there, stepping outside the “rules” of corporate medicine, and figuring out how to bring the right patients through the door. And when you’re doing it alone, every decision can feel h...
We're officially halfway through the year. And if you're anything like me, you've probably already started mentally drafting your goals for the next six months. New offers, new habits, new systems. But before you pile anything else on, I want to ask you something first.
Do you actually have sp...