Karim Wabib is a Physician Assistant, and MBA candidate. He has experience on both the front and back end of healthcare, both having provided direct patient care as a physician assistant and then also serving as a practice manager. He's also the founder of FixCare Direct, a platform that combines direct primary care (DPC) and medical cost-sharing to provide an alternative to health insurance. In this episode, in addition to discussing the origin story of HealthCare Direct, we dive into how Karim is using surprising ways to grow his patient base, like Chamber of Commerce participation. 

This is actually a best-of episode. I went through and clipped high-value lessons from each of my podcast guests so far. Here is a table of contents on what you can find in this episode:

1.) Christine Bishara, MD of Within Medical on how gained 26,000 Instagram followers.

2.) Mario Amaro, MD of Ease on how to build a digital community.

3.) Dr. Joseph Pazona of Pazona MD on how he got over 1,000 positive Google reviews.

4.) Courtney Younglove, M.D., FOMA, FACOG, DABOM of Heartland Weight Loss on how she got comfortable with public speaking.

5.) Dr. Uri Goldberg on how he built a referral network for his pallative care practice.

6.) Palak Majmudar, MD of LV8 Health on how she is growing Elevate Health's referral network from non-traditional sources like diagnostic centers and gyms.

7.) Hilary Gallin, MD, MBA of ARX and Fastline on how her team got 100K of grant funding and you can too.

8.) Kirk Parsley, M.D. of Doc Parsley on how to take a supplement from idea to reality.

9.) Dr. Gil Carvalho of Nutrition Made Simple, over 1 Million downloads, on how to get started on YouTube.

10.) Dr. Jawad Ali, MD 🔪 of MedTech Connect on how to build a medical meetup with over 100 medical thought leaders.

11.) Ade Bakare DMSc, PA-C with 1,488 positive reviews on Sesame on how many state licenses you need to successful on Sesame & Zocdoc.

12.) Christina Hamm, DO on how affliate marketing partners helped her get initial sales for Percent Apparel.

Thank you all to all of these amazing guests for their time and wisdom!

#telehealth #telemedicine #medtec #digitalhealth #primarycare #independentmedicalpractice #independentheqlthcareprovider

Medical Speciality Tags (so other physicians will find this content. In no particular order, and not comprehensive): #familymedicine #internalmedicine #emergencymedicine #obgyn #neurology #dermatology #heent #endocrinology #psychiatry #orthopedicsurgery #pulmonology #cardiology #gastroenterology #sportsmedicine 

Dr. Christina Hamm is a family medicine and urgent care physician. She is also the founder of Percent Apparel, a GOTS-certified 100% organic cotton scrub company. In this episode we explore how she used affiliate marketing to reach her customer base. We also dive into how she went from idea to actually getting her scrubs into production by manufacturers, as well as the overall origin story behind Percent Apparel. 

Adewumi Bakare, PA-C has thousands of positive 5-star reviews on the major telehealth platforms. Of note, he has 1,488 stellar patient reviews on Sesame. He also provides patient care on Zocdoc and WebMD. He is the CEO of Fastdocnow.com, his own telemedicine platform and practice. In this episode we discuss how he accomplished these amazing feats, and how you can go about doing the same!

#telemedicine #telehealth #primarycareprovider #primarycare #medtech #medicalpodcast #healthpodcast #independentmedicalpractice #independentmedicalprovider 

Jawad Ali is the co-founder and president of Austin Medtech Connect. Austin Medtect Connect brings together founders, funding, and stakeholders in the medtech/biotech industry. In its five years since inception, Dr. Jawad has grown AMC to regularly having 100+ thought-leaders attend each of these events. Dr. Jawad is also an affiliate professor at the University of Texas @Austin, as well as the Associate Director of Surgical and Specialty Care at Central Health.

In this episode, we discuss how he got started getting a critical mass of attendees for these events, how he went about getting event sponsors, and so much more! This is a must-listen to for anyone who is interested in organizing high-impact events in healthcare. 

Dr. Kirk Parsley is a retired Navy SEAL and physician. He has been a guest on renowned Podcasts such as the Jocko podcast, and has been a speaker at TEDx. During his active career in the SEALs, Dr. Parsley served on SEAL Team Five. He left the SEAL community to pursue a college education, and later decided to pursue medicine. After completing his medical training, Dr. Parsley returned to the SEAL teams as the physician for the West Coast SEAL teams. After his time in the Navy, Dr. Parsley founded Doc Parsley, through which he focuses on sleep and performance medicine. He also offers a sleep supplement through Doc Parsley. Dr. Kirk Parsley is certified in Hyperbaric Medicine, Anti-Aging Medicine, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and is currently pursuing national certification in Psychedelic Medicine Therapies. He dedicates a significant portion of his time to advising non-profit organizations that support the SEAL community and providing healthcare guidance and treatment to veterans.

Dr. Hilary Gallin MD/MBA is a board-certified anesthesiologist. She got her MD degree at Washington University. She completed her residency at Mass General. She earned her MBA through Harvard business school.

Dr. Gallin is the co-founder of two companies: Fastline and ARX. Fastline is a medical device company with the goal of improving central line placement. ARX is making high-quality PPE tailored towards women.

In this episode we discuss how to translate your idea for a medical device/product into reality.

Dr. Palak Majmudar is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Mt. Sinai. She is also the co-founder of LV8Health, a precision and longevity medical practice. In this episode we discuss the founding of LV8Health, as well as how Dr. Majmudar used her warm network to get her first DPC/cash-pay patients. We also discuss LV8Health is getting corporate clients.

Dr. Uri Goldberg is the founder of Harmony Palliative. In this episode Dr. Goldberg discusses how he built a physician referral network to grow his DPC palliative care practice!