Born in Scotland and educated in Illinois, Dr. Siddique decided to get an MBA at the University of Southern California before doing a fellowship in neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai. He saw medicine changing and wanted to remain an independent surgeon rather than following the trend in becoming a W-2 employee of a hospital. He and his business partner Brian Perri, D.O. created several medical groups, opened their own outpatient surgical center, bought a $24 million building near Cedars, and recently bought...