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.
You went into medicine to help people.
You knew it would be hard. The hours, the training, the weight of what it means to hold someone's health in your hands. You were ready for all of that.
What you weren't ready for was the slow erosion.
The year-on-year accumulation of restrictions that ...
How could you guarantee you never fill your patient panel?
Strange question, I know. But stay with me…
I recently came across an idea from Charlie Munger that completely reframed how I think about growth.
His "inversion rule" is simple: instead of asking how to succeed, ask how to fail, and...
You started your own practice for the freedom.
To practice medicine your way, work with the patients you actually want to see, and build something that’s yours.
And then… the admin hit.
The forms. The tracking. The never-ending list of tiny tasks that somehow keep multiplying. Back when you...
Ever hired someone to help grow your business and felt that sinking feeling when it just… wasn't what you were promised? Or maybe you're so scared of making the wrong call that you haven't made one at all?
The pressure to make the "right" investment can be paralyzing, and the fear of wasting m...
Your inner circle loves you… but they’re not always the people who can hold you through the emotional highs and lows of running a healthcare business.
When you’re navigating big decisions, uncertainty, and growth, advice from well-meaning friends and family can sometimes leave you feeling mor...
There was a physician I met 15 years ago who believed in something different.
At the time, the standard of care in oncology was clear: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation. That was the playbook.
But he was studying something else—vaccines as a treatment for breast cancer.
He showed data.
He sha...
If you’re a woman physician thinking about starting or scaling your own private practice—but feel overwhelmed by the business side, unsure where to start, or frustrated by slow growth—you’re not alone.
Many clinicians reach a point where clinical expertise is no longer the challenge. Building ...
There’s a reason so many women clinicians return from retreats feeling temporarily refreshed, but fundamentally unchanged.
It’s not because they didn’t try hard enough.
It’s not because they didn’t “rest enough.”
It’s because most retreats designed for clinicians are meant to help you cope wit...
If marketing your practice feels uncomfortable, confusing, or overwhelming, you’re not alone.
And more importantly—your discomfort doesn’t mean you’re bad at marketing.
This is one of the most common patterns we see when working with women clinicians who are starting or growing their own ...
One of the most overlooked challenges for women clinicians stepping into entrepreneurship isn’t strategy, marketing, or even business knowledge.
It’s learning how to effectively give and receive feedback.
In clinical training, feedback is often structured, hierarchical, and tied to evaluation...
For many women physicians, the idea of starting a medical practice doesn’t feel exciting at first.
It feels overwhelming.
There are so many moving pieces—business structure, marketing, operations, finances—that it can feel impossible to know where to begin.
One founder described it perfectly...
Most physicians don’t wake up one day and suddenly decide to leave corporate medicine.
Instead, the decision unfolds over time.
In this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by my colleague Dr. Matthea Rentea to discuss the journey clinicians take on their path to creating their own businesses. ...