The Physician Business Podcast

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...

You have a growing to-do list, a packed calendar, and a business pulling at you from every direction. You're working hard. So why does it still feel like you're barely moving?

Most entrepreneurs reach for a better system: a cleaner task list, a tighter calendar, the latest productivity hack. B...

You opened your clinic because you wanted to practice medicine differently.

You wanted more autonomy, more time with patients, and the freedom to build something that reflects your values. But once you’re actually in the business of running a clinic, the reality can feel a lot more complicated...

If you were starting your business from scratch today, what would you absolutely not choose again?

That glitchy piece of tech you keep tolerating? The team member who takes more energy than they give back? The vendor relationship that makes your stomach sink every time their name pops up in yo...

Credit card out, ready to sign, completely sold on a new doctor... and then I put the card away.

I spend my days coaching physicians on how to win patients, so when I went shopping for my own direct primary care doctor recently, the tables turned.

I narrowed it down to two physicians, but onl...