We don't often associate autonomy and culture change with large academic employers, but Dr. Kelly Wright is reinventing healthcare around these values.  "Just give your team a goal and autonomy to make it happen," says Wright, the Division Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery. She models transparency around financial goals, team based care, and how to come back to an empty inbox without working on vacation. 

For folks in large organizations, especially those who want a sustainable academic career, this episode is for you.  

You can find Dr Wright on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and her travel on points website.

Dr. Errin Weisman, a board certified Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine doctor, was no longer aligned with her work and burning out again. She did what many of us do - put her head down and kept working - until she no longer could.  We hear from her as she resigns from her job with no other employment in place.

We often hear stories in the aftermath of achievement while glossing over the painful, uncertain journey.  Dr. Weisman shares the fear of navigating the messy middle as a single mom.  As always, she is raw, unfiltered, and hilarious. 

You can find Dr. Weisman on her website, Instagram, and LinkedIn.  She is the podcast host of Doctor Me First and Burntout to Badass. 

After 20 years in traditional practice, Dr. Becky Lynn, a board certified OBGYN, started a comprehensive women's health clinic in February 2020.  From the beginning, she used her skills to pivot, grow, learn, and listen to her patients.  Evora Health evolved from a solo GYN practice to a comprehensive center for women's health with primary care, psychiatry, dietetics, therapy, acupuncture, aesthetics, reiki, physical training, and more.  

Dr. Lynn describes how she grows her business acumen, especially surrounding herself with support from other high achieving entrepreneurs. For any physician who is questioning if they can pivot their career, "If you went through med school, you can figure it out"

You can find Dr. Lynn on her website, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. 

Dr. Rachel Rubin, a board certified urologist and fellowship trained sexual medicine physician, who is carving her own path forward in practice, advocacy, and social media.  When job offers for traditional practice fell through, she created her own practice model.  She built it scared - creating a sustainable career of patient care, research, teaching - outside of academic medicine.   

Dr. Rubin discusses all things social media, expanding access and education, and the "Meno-posse" text chain with her collaborating colleagues.

You can find Dr. Rubin on her website and Instagram. 

Dr. Shane Purcell is a Family Medicine doctor and founding member of the Direct Primary Care Alliance, an organization that provides education, mentorship, and advocacy for Direct Primary Care Physicians. Dr. Purcell shares how he created one of the first DPC practices.

In his South Carolina practice, Dr. Purcell "provides direct primary care to restore the patient-physician relationship destroyed by administration hacks and insurance thugs. His oath is to patients, not insurance companies, administrators or the government." 

You can find Dr. Purcell on his website and LinkedIn and read his book, Magic, Pixie Dust, and Miracles: A Guide for Direct Primary Care and Employers.

Dr. Anita Bangale is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician who struggled with burnout early in her career.  Knowing that emergency medicine physicians scale back or retire earlier than their peers, she diversified her clinical practice and found fulfilling ways to use her skills. Dr. Bangale discusses that there are many ways to be a healer and how to let go of the physician ego.

You can find Dr. Bangale on her website and Instagram.  

You can enjoy her TED talks:

TEDxBreckenridge - Masking Up to De-Armor

TEDxRaleigh link - Fine Tuning our Mental Health - The Power of Social Prescription   

This week I interview Arden Miller, a health care transactional attorney who helps health care workers and dentists through contractual negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, and restrictive covenants.  She explains everything you need to know about the recent FTC ruling on non-competes, what this means for physicians, and how healthcare organizations are responding. 

Arden Miller is an attorney in Atlanta, GA.  You can find her on her website and LinkedIn. 

Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu had two weeks to make a decision: stay with her established practice or take the unplanned risk to start her own. In the wake of a hospital acquisition, she left her practice, launched an insurance-based solo-practice, and build her own procedural center.

In this episode, Dr. Ramasubbu shares how she built a procedural based practice, staffing, finances, and what she's learned along the way.

Dr. Chitra Ramasubbu is double board certified in Anesthesiology and pain, and has practiced as a Pain Specialist for more than 10 years in the Atlanta area. She provides care for her patients in a thoughtful, personalized and friendly environment.

You can find Dr. Ramasubbu on her website and Instagram.

On this episode, Dr. Kristine Goins shares how she was able to fast track to financial freedom via geo-arbitrage while caring for patients from anywhere in the world. Dr. Goins is a board-certified integrative adult & pediatric psychiatrist and world traveler.  

Motivated by a desire to make a difference, Dr. Goins founded Nomad MD, where she combines her medical expertise with powerful coaching techniques to help her fellow physicians thrive. At Nomad MD, Dr. Goins emboldens doctors to break the chains of traditional medicine and guides them towards location freedom & the opportunity to immerse themselves in a nomadic lifestyle.

You can find Dr. Goins on her website, Facebook, and Instagram. 

Dr. Elizabeth Pearce shares her decision to change her Otolaryngology practice model to better serve her community in Maine. Dr. Pearce opened PearceMD in the summer of 2022, to offer Mainers a simplified, refreshing model of care focused on timely access and communication, unrushed visits, price transparency, and clear solutions for ear and airway health.

You can find Dr. Pearce on her website.