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Escaping the Broken Healthcare System: Why I Started The Physician Business Podcast

You're a highly trained physician, someone who dedicated years of your life to learning how to heal people. You entered medicine to make a difference, to use your expertise to genuinely help patients get better. But somewhere along the way, the system you're working in started feeling more like a prison than a calling.

Sound familiar?

Here's a statistic that should make us all pause: 20% of our nation's GDP goes to healthcare, yet we're barely outperforming Croatia in health outcomes. We're pouring massive resources into a system that's fundamentally broken—and it's not just failing patients. It's killing the physicians who are trying to work within it.

If you're reading this and feeling that familiar knot in your stomach, you're not alone. And more importantly, you're not stuck.

The System That's Failing All of Us

Let's be honest about what's happening in corporate medicine today. We have a healthcare system that prioritizes profit margins over patient care, that forces physicians into impossible schedules that leave no time for actual healing, and that treats doctors like replaceable cogs in a machine rather than the highly skilled professionals they are.

The numbers don't lie. Despite spending more on healthcare than any other developed nation, our outcomes are, frankly, embarrassing. We're dealing with physician burnout rates that should be considered a national emergency, while patients are getting sicker and more frustrated with a system that doesn't serve them.

This isn't just about individual physician satisfaction—though that matters enormously. This is about a fundamental breakdown in how we deliver healthcare in America. And the physicians I work with are tired of being complicit in a system that goes against everything they believed medicine should be.

From Scaling Startups to Freeing Physicians

Over the past decade, I've been helping startups grow and scale. I've seen what's possible when passionate, skilled people have the freedom to build something that actually works. But more recently, I've been working specifically with women physicians who have started independent medical practices, helping them overcome all the challenges that come up along the way.

And let me tell you: there are a lot of challenges.

But here's what I've learned from working with these incredible women: when physicians have the freedom to practice medicine on their own terms, magic happens. They rediscover why they went into medicine in the first place. Their patients get better care. Their families get more of them. And they start to remember what it feels like to love their work again.

This work, for me, is about so much more than helping doctors make more money. It's about helping them exit a broken system that's literally killing them—and their patients. It's about creating a pathway for physicians to practice medicine the way it was meant to be practiced.

Why This Podcast Had to Exist

I started The Physician Business Podcast because the resources out there weren't addressing what I was seeing. Most business advice is generic, created for entrepreneurs who don't have medical degrees and don't understand the unique challenges physicians face when transitioning from employee to practice owner.

Physicians need different strategies. You need approaches that account for the fact that you've been trained to be an employee, not an entrepreneur. You need solutions that don't require massive startup funds or ask you to sacrifice every evening and weekend with your family. You need practical frameworks that acknowledge the regulatory complexities of healthcare while still being actionable.

Most importantly, you need to know that other physicians have successfully made this transition—and that you can too.

This Is for You If...

You're ready to crawl your way out of corporate medicine but you need a roadmap that actually works in the real world. You're tired of feeling like you're betraying your calling every time you clock in. You want to practice medicine in a way that serves your patients, your family, and yourself.

This podcast is for physicians who see independent practice not as a pipe dream, but as a necessary step toward fixing what's broken in healthcare. It's for those who want practical strategies that don't require you to choose between financial stability and family time.

What We're Building Together

Every week on The Physician Business Podcast, we're going to dive into the real stuff. The operational frameworks that turn chaos into systems. The financial indicators that actually matter for medical practices. The mindset shifts that help you see yourself not just as a physician, but as a physician and business owner.

We're building a community of physicians who refuse to accept that the current system is the only option. We're creating a movement of healthcare professionals who are taking back control of their careers, their practices, and their lives.

Your independence journey starts here. 

Subscribe to The Physician Business Podcast and join us in creating something better—for physicians, for patients, and for the future of healthcare.

Because the system is broken, but that doesn't mean you have to stay broken with it.

Ready to start your journey out of corporate medicine? Subscribe to The Physician Business Podcast on Apple Podcast or Spotify - or wherever you listen to podcasts - and join our community of physicians building independent practices that actually work.