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Episode 031 | Michael Hersh, MD is a practicing gastroenterologist, coach, and founder of Better Physician Life.
When he became an attending in 2009, he hit the ground running. Like many of us, he was excited to build his practice and engage with patients.
He joined a small multispecialty group and took on as many leadership opportunities as he could find. If there was a committee that needed a young, eager physician, he was the guy. His position in the group blossomed, and he became a well-respected physician in his community.
Everything changed in 2014, as he tells it, with the birth of his daughter. He went from having all of the time he needed for everything he wanted to do, to realizing that every patient and committee meant trading valuable family time for his career.
He slowly backed away from the leadership roles, but the extra time quickly became filled with patient care. The more he tried to slow down, the faster everything seemed to move and the less control he had over his day.
His family grew even more with the birth of his son in 2017. He stepped away from other activities outside of the home, but was never quite able to untangle himself from the complexities of patient care.
Like so many other physicians, he had fallen prey to a mutual fund company and needed to figure out his finances immediately. In his journey to learn as much as possible about that, he found the solution to his problem: The financial independence community.
He devoured all of the information he could find and pursued financial independence like it was his only job. He knew that if he could achieve that, he would finally get to live the life he wanted. He could finally carve time out of his day to be with his family. But once he got on the path, nothing changed. He was still working just as hard as before.
Scrolling social media one day, he came across physician coaching and looked into it with a healthy dose of skepticisim. He soon typed out the words that would change everything: Something needs to change, but I don’t know where to start.
When he saw those words in front of him, his decision became clear. He took a huge leap of faith and invested in himself.
He continues to practice as a gastroenterologist and also runs his own physician coaching business, Better Physician Life. Tune in to hear more of his transformational story!
This episode was recorded in May 2024.
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Episode 030 | Diana Londoño, MD is 1 of the only 0.5% (1 in 200!) of urologists in the U.S that are both women and Latin. She's also a life coach, writer, speaker, Reiki Master and founder of Physician Coach Support. She's my friend, and she is most definitely #NotAProvider.
Dr. Londoño' treats a wide array of urological conditions but doesn't stop there. Her mission is to provide you with compassionate care that you can understand. She enjoys providing care using simple language without fancy words that few people understand. As a board-certified urologist, she doesn't just want to tell you what to do. She thinks it's important to work together as a team and is always happy to do so in English or Spanish.
Much like me, Dr. Londoño's goal is to improve and maintain the overall health of her patients. This isn't something that's easy to find in a specialist, especially in a field that can rely much more on procedures than nuanced improvement of health and coaching. She aims to empower you with an understanding of your condition and share with you a comprehensive wellness plan so you can be on a path to life long well being.
The treatments she offers are both medical and surgical. She uses open, laparoscopic, and robotic-assisted techniques for surgical procedures.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Londono received the 2022 Physician Leadership Award from the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
Education:
Bachelors of Arts: Spanish and Biology: Claremont McKenna College.Medical Doctor: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Residency in Urology: Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles.
This episode was recorded in April 2024.
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Episode 029 | Brittany Busse, MD is the co-founder, president, and Chief Medical Officer of ViTelHealth, Inc and the Founder and CEO of the ViTelHealth Physician Services Cooperative. She has more than seven years of experience in Executive Physician Leadership and in developing processes and technology specific for Telemedicine.
Dr. Busse has a keen intuition and is able to make meaningful connections between disparate ideas and systems. She is also able to speak clearly and at a level that most people can immediately relate to and understand, which has led to her being a featured expert and contributor for a variety of local, regional and national media publications.
As a physician leader, she is a vocal advocate for the well-being of both physicians and patients. Her curiosity for innovation and technology and her excitement for improving the healthcare system is contagious.
As the president and CMO of ViTelHealth, she is dedicated to improving healthcare delivery and organizing digital health tools that augment the patient-physician connection and improve outcomes so that everyone can thrive.
She launched the ViTel Health Physician Services Cooperative in 2024 to empower physicians to work together to improve healthcare delivery and to create a bridge from employed work to thriving in independent practice.
Please note that this was recorded in April 2024. Check out the links below for the latest on Dr. Busse's mission and vision.
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Episode 028 | Aamir Hussain, MD, MAPP is a board-certified dermatologist who is currently practicing in Northern Virginia.
He is an internationally-recognized speaker, writer and educator on health policy, medical education and interfaith dialogue. He speaks five languages and enjoys teaching and working with diverse patient populations.
Dr. Hussain has won multiple teaching awards from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored several book chapters and written for prestigious media outlets, such as The New York Times.
Dr. Hussain completed his medical degree and master’s degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, and his dermatology residency at Georgetown University. He is known as the Pun-isher due to his penchant for bad puns.
In this episode:🔥 Shout out to friend of the pod Dr. Adam Swigost
🔥 Interfaith dynamics -- a Muslim walks into a Catholic Jesuit institution
🔥 Dermatology's affluence and acccess problem
🔥 What it means when your dermatologist looks like you
🔥 Vibe shift -- the value of speaking the same language
🔥 A Derm who speaks 5 languages
🔥 Cultural competency and religious literacy in dermatology
🔥 Building rapport through curiosity
🔥 What you should know about prayer-related dermatoses
🔥 A dermatologist's experience on the COVID-19 front lines (not a joke)
🔥 The residency to "job" transition
🔥 The value of mentorship
🔥 Alignment and the Jesuit model of discernment
🔥 Misalignment burnout (credit to Dr. Ali Abdaal)
🔥 Shout out to Heroic Leadership by Chrois Lowney
🔥 The economics of offering patch testing
🔥 The Jesuits as an exercise in branding: education first, religion second
🔥 Complement your deep learning with broad learning
🔥 Spiky ideas get pushed away until a crisis arrives
🔥 Patch testing in dermatology: show me the incentive and I'll show you the results
🔥 Shout out to all the Allergic Contact Dermatitis phenoms
🔥 Medical staff and clinic culture
🔥 A medical practice as a pillar of the community
🔥 Shout out to the incomparable Tim Callahan and Chantilly, VA
🔥 Physician, have your own web page!
🔥 Sometimes it's as simple as Expertise + Circumstance = Opportunity
🔥 Shout out to Interfaith America
🔥 Setting yourself up for opportunity to knock
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Episode 027 | Amna Shabbir, MD, CPC is passionate about helping doctors thrive in life after medical training as an early career physician.
She is the Founder of Early Career Physicians Institute, a Certified Wellness and Life Coach, Dual Board-certified Geriatrician-Internist and Super Mom to two young girls.
In this episode:🔥 In search of alignment
🔥 3 stages of the Early Career Physician
🔥 Ask yourself what still gives you joy in medicine?
🔥 The importance of early awareness and intervention
🔥 The training you need after your training is done
🔥 How Amna is helping great doctors stay in medicine
🔥 Recognizing how much agency we always have
🔥 Ripple of Change -- shout out to Dr. Todd Otten and Joshua Judy
🔥 It's only your fault if you accept it -- shout out Dr. Robert Kornfeld
🔥 How to start climbing out of the hole
🔥 Being a doctor is a life threatening profession
🔥 Overwhelm and denial
🔥 The value of creative pursuits
🔥 Shout out to Dr. Erinn Weisman and the Dr. Me First and Burnout to Badass podcasts
🔥 Burned out docs as crabs in a bucket -- should out Dr. Michael Hersh
🔥 Simply creating white space is often the first step. After that, everything else just pours out.
🔥 Choice + agency + a little help from your friends
🔥 The power of our stories
🔥 Feeling held in the shared human experience
🔥 You will fall, and you will fail, and you need help. You're not broken.
🔥 The higher you get, the more help you need
🔥 Do you have anyone in your corner?
🔥 Work dread and morning dread as indicators -- another shout out to Dr. Hersh
🔥 Misery and cynicism love company
🔥 It's complicated as another way of saying it's not a priority
🔥 Corporations that abdicated responsibility for taking care of the doctors they employ
🔥 The organizations that truly care (they do exist) -- a business case and a moral case
🔥 Chronic undervaluation of human capital
🔥 What choice are you making today?
🔥 Unique challenges that female physicians face
🔥 Despite the challenges, the future of our profession is bright
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Episode 026 | Luká Yancopoulos is a visionary entrepreneur and the driving force behind Grapevine, a groundbreaking startup that is transforming the healthcare supply chain.
Since its launch in 2022, Grapevine has made waves in the industry, including earning the prestigious President’s Innovation Prize the same year for its outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship.
Under Luká's leadership, Grapevine has secured approximately $4,000,000 in funding and partnered with more than 400 businesses across the United States. The Grapevine platform enables clients to save up to 50% on medical supply costs, reduce order times by over 90%, and seamlessly work with multiple vendors, thereby accelerating procurement and delivery processes.
The Grapevine leadership team is committed to addressing critical issues in the healthcare supply chain, including:- Hidden Costs of Single Supplier Dependency in Healthcare Supply Chains
- Inefficiencies in Medical Goods Transport
- Warehousing Costs in Medical Supplies (a hidden killer!)
- Managing Backorders in Large Hospitals
- Embracing Digital Transformation
Luká's thought leadership has been featured on prominent podcasts such as The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Healthcare Untold, and Health Innovators Show and notable publications including Medical Economics, Healthcare Express, and Healthcare Business Today. Grapevine has been highlighted in major outlets like USA Today and Benzinga.
As you will hear, Luká is committed to inspiring and educating healthcare professionals on the importance of digital transformation in supply chain management.
In this episode:🔥 Dorm room disruption during the pandemic
🔥 Work doesn't have to suck in order for it to be work
🔥 High Cost + Low Value = Not Great!
🔥 Healthcare's Hapsburg Chin/Jaw
🔥 The $900 Mayo stand
🔥 First, provide value
🔥 Serving the independent physician
🔥 The lowest price every time you buy
🔥 Networks are stronger than chains
🔥 Dr. Lewellis' Virtual First model explained
🔥 11:59 -- Grapevine's solution for the Innovator's Paradox
🔥 Taking customers for granted (don't do that)
🔥 How Grapevine makes money
🔥 Decentralization of power
🔥 Hidden warehousing costs
🔥 Foul and disgusting markups
🔥 The Cost Plus model
🔥 Company culture
🔥 Grapevine's BHAG
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Episode 025 | Dr. Teo Soleymani, a Los Angeles native, one of my Stanford residency mates, and founder of California Dermatology and Mohs Surgery Specialists (CDMS), completed his undergraduate studies in Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. He went on to graduate from the UC Irvine School of Medicine, where he received numerous accolades for academic excellence including induction into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Dr. Soleymani completed his internship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was awarded the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching with Humanism Award. He went on to complete his residency at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. While at Stanford, Dr. Soleymani worked with world-renowned experts in cutaneous oncology and complex skin diseases. Following residency, he completed a rigorous fellowship in Mohs Micrographic Surgery, Cutaneous Oncology, and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Zitelli and Brodland Skin Cancer Center under the tutelage of John Zitelli, M.D. Considered by many to be the world’s most prestigious and competitive fellowship, the program is directed by both John Zitelli, M.D. and David Brodland, M.D, widely considered to be two of the pre-eminent authorities in Mohs surgery.
Notably, Dr. Zitelli, was trained directly by Dr. Frederic E. Mohs, the founder and pioneer of Mohs micrographic surgery. This direct lineage from Dr. Mohs enables Dr. Soleymani to give his patients the highest-quality Mohs surgery experience.
Dr. Soleymani’s unique fellowship training was the only program in the world that included fellowship training in both Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well. As a result he is one of only a handful of Mohs Surgeons in the world with dedicated specialized training in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well, allowing him to provide the best possible functional and aesthetic reconstructive results.
Prior to founding CDMS, Dr. Soleymani practiced as a full-time Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery at UCLA, where he was also the Director of the Pigmented Lesions and Melanoma Clinic, as well as Co-Director of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology Fellowship Education and Resident Surgery Education programs. During his tenure at UCLA, Dr. Soleymani received local and national acclaim for introducing pioneering surgical treatments such as Mohs micrographic surgery with intra-operative immunostaining for melanoma and other high risk skin cancers. He developed UCLA’s first Mohs Surgery for Melanoma program.
In his spare time, Dr. Soleymani enjoys spending quality time with his wife and children, staying active, and traveling.
Coincidentally, this episode is dropping on the one year anniversary of CDMS, Dr. Soleymani's now thriving private practice. Congratulations to him and his team!
In this episode:🔥 They need us; we don't need them
🔥 The courage to leave the Ivory Tower
🔥 "I realized I didn't need to be there."
🔥 Betting on yourself
🔥 Starting a dermatology and Mohs surgery practice
🔥 Accepting all the insurances
🔥 Sun Powder -- Developing and launching a skin health supplement
🔥 Mohs surgery for melanoma
🔥 Arrogance vs Confidence
🔥 Grown men saying nice things to other grown men!
🔥 Challenging the status quo in medicine and surgery
🔥 Misalignment burnout
🔥 A reason for hope -- the resurgence of independent practice
🔥 Academic mentors and business mentors
🔥 Taking care of your team
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Soleymani
California Dermatology & Mohs Surgery Specialists (CDMS)
Sun Powder by Sol Sciences
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Episode 024 | Dr. Nicholas D. Brownstone received a BA degree in Psychology from Cornell University and attended medical school at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson.
He trained for over 3 years as a resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery before switching to a career in Dermatology. Dr. Brownstone completed a fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Dermatology in Psoriasis, Phototherapy and Clinical Research and a fellowship in melanoma at the National Society for Cutaneous Medicine/Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine.
He is currently a Dermatology resident at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, among other collaborations with dermsquared, hosts Cutaneous Miscellaneous, a fantastic podcast geared towards dermatology residents.
In this episode:🔥 From plastic surgery to dermatology
🔥 Podcasting as a dermatology resident
🔥 From not loving what you do to loving it -- a new lease on life
🔥 The sunk cost fallacy
🔥 Great mentors
🔥 The dermsquared rebrand
🔥 The team dermatologist for the Yankees
🔥 "I just have to go and have my own thing."
🔥 A passion for teaching
🔥 Key merits of different psoriasis biologics
🔥 Remembering Dr. Charles Crutchfield
🔥 Cutaneous Miscellaneous and Derms and Conditions
🔥 Want to contribute? Look for where the need is.
🔥 The hard stuff becomes soft and the soft stuff becomes hard
🔥 Disability insurance
🔥 The post-residency job trap
🔥 Being called in front of the state medical board and a malpractice insurance pearl
🔥 A day without laughter is a wasted day
🔥 Why we love psychodermatology
🔥 Dr. John Koo, a true master clinician
🔥 Secondary negative psychological effects from acne, vitiligo, alopecia, atopic dermatitis, and psoriasis
🔥 The art of communication
🔥 The Koo-Brownstone Staging System for delusions of parasitosis
🔥 Beware of emphathic failure
🔥 How to break in with industry
🔥 "All I want to do is get your life back on track."
🔥 "I'm not going to give up on you if you don't give up on me."
🔥 The morbidity threshold
🔥 LinkedIn as an undervalued resource for dermatologists
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Brownstone
Cutaneous Miscellaneous
Under Your Skin
Dermbusters
Biologics and JAK Inhibitor Charts
Non-steroidal Topicals Chart
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Episode 023 | Dr. Oxana Ormonova is a board-certified Internal Medicine Physician, Clairvoyant, Spiritual Healer, and Intuitive Life Coach gifted with insight and perception to facilitate deep transformation and healing on spiritual, emotional, and mental levels.
From a very young age, Oxana realized she was different – being able to see and feel things no one else could. As a physician, this talent was helpful to others, but painful for herself, as Oxana could feel all the pain of her patients and colleagues.
Through much trial and error, she found a way to embody her intuitive gifts and feel great in her body, and it’s these secrets she’s now passionate about sharing with others.
Oxana’s greatest love (other than diving into the Pacific with her marine family) is empowering people by helping them heal themselves on all levels – physical, emotional, and spiritual.
She works with people all over the globe, from physicians, to business executives, to coaches and entrepreneurs. She also teaches others how to develop their intuition and maintain energetic boundaries.
In this episode:🔥 Being an intuitive
🔥 5 hour commute to med school... in Siberia!
🔥 You can be creative AND be a doctor
🔥 Not being able to fully be yourself and express your gifts
🔥 Functional medicine
🔥 Finding your tribe
🔥 The trouble with trying to fit your truth into their system
🔥 "I just have to go and have my own thing."
🔥 Learning how to develop your intuition
🔥 Opening the doors of perception
🔥 "This practice doesn't exist, so I have to create it."
🔥 Trust it, have fun with it, explore it
🔥 Learning to ask the right questions
🔥 We are here to express and share our gifts
🔥 A sense of alignment and joy
🔥 Shoulding ourselves to death
🔥 It takes a long time to know who we are
🔥 "This current job is not working for me."
🔥 High sensitivity and The Land Before Time
🔥 Boundaries to protect ourselves
🔥 Opening yourself to energetic connections
🔥 Swimming with dolphins and the power of play
🔥 Allowing ourselves to live in alignment with our joy
🔥 Realizing you are limitless
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Ormonova
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Episode 022 | Dr. Meena Julapalli is triple board-certified in pediatrics, dermatology, and pediatric dermatology.
After 7 years in academics as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the University of Texas - Austin and the University of Colorado, she opened her own direct care pediatric dermatology practice, Bluebird Dermatology, in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Julapalli is passionate about providing comprehensive, integrative, and personalized care that acknowledges and supports not just the physical aspects of her patients' skin conditions but also their unique social and emotional needs. She believes that by fostering sacred relationships of love, trust, and mutual respect and creating an environment and community whereby children and families affected by skin disease feel seen, heard, understood, valued, and supported, they are empowered, transformed, and healed in profound and life-changing ways.
Dr. Julapalli has been blessed to facilitate and witness these transformations through her involvement with support groups and camp programs throughout the country, including the American Academy of Dermatology-sponsored Camp Discovery, Paul Newman's SeriousFun Network, and the American Camp Association, as well as through local workshops and healing circles that she leads.
She is the founder of The Joyful Path, whose mission is to help children build the intuition of how to nourish their mind, body, and soul so that they may live, love, and serve generously with an open heart, intention, and purpose.
In addition to her philanthropic pursuits in her local and national communities, Dr. Julapalli is dedicated to serving children abroad. She has volunteered her time and expertise at a pediatric HIV/AIDS clinic in Lesotho, Africa, at orphanages and schools in Nicaragua, with children and adults with albinism in Tanzania, and most recently with people in impoverished villages in northern Thailand.
Dr. Julapalli's adventures also include being a children's book author, wisdom coach and yoga instructor for kids, Reiki master, world explorer (she has been to all 7 continents, all 50 states), avid hiker, meditator, sound healer/instrumentalist, and amateur swing dancer!
She's also simply one of the most truly joyful and generous people I've ever met. I'm honored and grateful to call her a friend and colleague.
In this episode:🔥 From academia to direct care pediatric dermatology
🔥 50 patients a day and feeling disconnected and like a hypocrite
🔥 "The metric was how many patients can you see in the shortest amount of time possible to make the most amount of money."
🔥 The current system does not allow us to do what we do best -- CONNECT with people
🔥 Neurocardiology and HeartMath
🔥 Integrative Dermatology
🔥 Taking some time off to figure it out
🔥 Pausing to reconnect with yourself
🔥 Private practice as a means of utilizing our unique gifts
🔥 Direct care is just one way of solving a huge problem
🔥 Misalignment burnout
🔥 Combatting bad information with good
🔥 "How can I?" instead of "I can't"
🔥 Educate, Empower, Advocate -- a virtuous cycle
🔥 Marvel, DC, and Elsa
🔥 Should out to Dr. Marinkovich and his team at Stanford working to help kids with EB!
🔥 Chronic diseases are family affairs
🔥 Dermatology Camps
🔥 Asking kids "What brings you joy?"
🔥 Writing children's books
🔥 Ikigai
🔥 The magic of building something of your own
🔥 Mindset coaching for kids
🔥 Big hairy audacious visions
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Julapalli
🐦 Bluebird Dermatology 🐦Other Blubird Dermatology LinksThe Joyful Path
Other Joyful Path LinksAAD's Camp DiscoveryPaul Newman's SeriousFun Network Roundup River RanchCamp Spirit (Winter Camp for kids with Epidermolysis Bullosa)
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Episode 021 | If you're a specialist who knows there has to be a better way but doesn't know where to start, start with Diana Girnita, MD, PhD, FACR, visionary Founder and CEO of Rheumatologist OnCall and the Direct Specialty Care Alliance.
She's one of my heroes, and I'm so grateful she took the time to share her wisdom and experience with us.
Rheumatologist OnCall is a telemedicine company delivering specialized care to arthritis and autoimmune disease patients across multiple U.S. states. This innovative platform grants access to top rheumatology experts from the comfort of patients' homes, overcoming the typical delays of up to 6 months for specialist appointments. It provides timely, compassionate, evidence-based care at affordable and transparent pricing.
The company is built upon a groundbreaking healthcare model known as direct specialty care, offering a comprehensive approach that includes nutrition, mindfulness, physical therapy, and cutting-edge medicine.
Educational background: Dr. Girnita is double board-certified in rheumatology and internal medicine. She holds a PhD in immunology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, an immunology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and a rheumatology fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. Additionally, she graduated from the Nutrition Science course at Stanford University and a Mindfulness course at The University of Massachusetts.
Recognized as a "Top Doctor" from 2017-2020, Dr. Girnita was featured in the New York Times, she is frequently invited guest speaker of the National Arthritis Foundation and American Congress of Rheumatology. She generously shares her expertise on her popular YouTube channel, boasting over 65,000 subscribers and more than 5 million views.
In this episode:🔥 Early career physicians need independent role models
🔥 From cardiologist in Romania to post-doctoral fellow at Harvard
🔥 Life is what happens, not what you plan
🔥 Doctor life within the System: "You start to sacrifice from somewhere."
🔥 What you can do to improve your relationships with your patients AND your family
🔥 The unique value proposition of telemedicine
🔥 "But how am I going to bill for this?"
🔥 Getting started in direct specialty care -- borrowing from the private practice model in Romania
🔥 Having the courage to increase your prices
🔥 "They had to refer in their system"
🔥 All the things primary care docs wish they had time to do
🔥 Systems that take advantage of our good nature
🔥 Hiring and delegating
🔥 Great doctors are leaving medicine
🔥 Primary care as air traffic control
🔥 Learning from our patients
🔥 Taking holistic back from internet marketeers and autoimmunity charlatans
🔥 Multi-state licensure strategy
🔥 Getting your face in front of the camera
🔥 Discovery calls, social proof, pricing
🔥 Doctors supporting doctors
Connect with Dr. Girnita:
Rheumatologist OnCall
Direct Specialty Care Alliance
YouTube
LinkedIn
Instagram
Rheumatologist OnCall on FB Page
Rheumatoid Arthritis Warriors FB Group
Specialists for Direct Care FB Group
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Episode 020 | I'm excited to bring you an excerpt form a recent episode of the wonderful Dermasphere podcast hosted by Drs. Luke Johnson and Michelle Tarbox.
This is episode 130 for them. They've been at this for a while and have amassed a bit of a cult following. The show is fun and wildly educational.
I'm grateful to Luke and Michelle for allowing me to cross-post the interview on The Direct Care Derm feed. If you enjoy it, be sure to support them by checking out more episodes of Dermasphere!
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Episode 018 | Building a successful direct care dermatology practice may not be rocket science, but even if it was, Dr. Miguel Villacorta would still crush it.
He's one of my heroes in direct care dermatology, and I can't wait for you to learn from him.
Dr. Villacorta is a board-certified dermatologist, the visionary founder of Galt Dermatology & Concierge Medicine, and an advocate for transformative healthcare. He holds a degree in Osteopathic Medicine and a Master’s in Public Health, which underpin his mission to revolutionize the patient experience through compassionate, high-quality care. His innovative approach led to the establishment of South Florida’s first direct care dermatology service and the pioneering of a joint direct primary care and dermatology clinic.
Before embarking on his medical journey, Dr. Villacorta's eclectic career spanned from engineering to entrepreneurship. He assisted in the launch of space shuttle missions 104 and 105 as an electrical engineer at NASA and honed his industrial engineering skills at UPS. As the director of business development for JET Group, Inc., his strategic insights propelled the company to twice rank in the INC5000.
Dr. Villacorta's patient-first approach is driven by a commitment to transform the healthcare experience. He aims to provide high-quality, individualized care, upholding the highest standards of respect and dignity for patients and healthcare providers alike. Influenced by his summers in rural Spain, he brings a sense of community and personal touch to his practice.
Away from work, Dr. Villacorta values family time with his wife and children and engages in cooking, travel, and tennis, activities that complement his dedication to a balanced lifestyle.
Please note -- this episode was recorded a few months ago. As of this week, Dr. Villacorta's brand new website that we discuss in the show is up and running and looks great!
In this episode:🔥 Knowing where the wind is blowing
🔥 Learning from other business owners
🔥 There's gotta be a better mouse trap
🔥 Not everyone is ready to jump, but interest is growing every year
🔥 An old model that feels new
🔥 Branding and marketing
🔥 Relationship building
🔥 Pros and cons of direct care
🔥 Having the courage to increase your prices
🔥 Concierge Medicine vs Direct Care
🔥 All the things primary care docs wish they had time to do
🔥 Patients are realizing they aren't getting value from their insurance
🔥 Virtuous cycles
🔥 Knowing your weaknesses and leveraging the expertise of others
🔥 Sales as a critical skill for bedside manner
🔥 The magic of learning broadyly after learning deeply
🔥 Delivering what the market wants
🔥 Doing instead of complaining
🔥 The wave is coming
🔥 It's OK to fail
Connect with Dr. Villacorta:
Galt Dermatology & Concierge Medicine
Dr. Villacorta on LinkedIn
DirectCareDerm.org
Galt Dermatology on Instagram
Galt Dermatology on Facebook
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Episode 018 | Matt Ohrt is the Co-Founder and Chief Healthcare Officer of Self Fund Health, Wisconsin's Sustainable Health Plan.
Matt Ohrt and Jon Baran cofounded Self Fund Health to help brokers and employers write their own healthcare success stories.
Self Fund Health combines traditional TPA, PBM, Direct Primary Care, and Direct Contracts under a single technology platform to dramatically simplify what’s needed for employers to succeed.
By implementing similar approaches, progressive employers across Wisconsin have saved 10-30% on overall healthcare costs.
In this episode:🔥 Lean principles From Toyota to Merrill Steel
🔥 Passion for change management and problem solving
🔥 The entrepreneurial spirit and mindset
🔥 Never wait for someone else to solve your problems
🔥 Big Healthcare is fiercely guarding the status quo
🔥 Matt's book and the value of a newsletter
🔥 Speaking directly to your customer's problems and pain
🔥 Start with Why
🔥 It can take decades before we really know ourselves
🔥 What is a self funded health plan?
🔥 The mission of Self Fund Health
🔥 DPC, DSC, and smart shopping
🔥 We're not picking low hanging fruit; we're tripping over it
🔥 Playing a different game
🔥 Shocking but not surprising surgery cost estimates
🔥 An exciting time to be in healthcare
🔥 Our only path to sustainability
🔥 Matt's roots in helping his community run deep
🔗 Connect with Matt and Self Fund Health
📧 [email protected]
⚕️ Self Fund Health
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📖 Save Your Company: Don't Feed the Beast
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Episode 017 | Dr. Susan Baumgaertel is an internal medicine physician with over 30 years of clinical experience.
In 2020, she launched MenopauseMenu, a free informational website providing nourishing support for menopause and beyond.
Soon after that, she stepped away from direct patient care and founded a novel telemedicine business model, myMDadvocate.
She uses her extensive medical experience and expertise to serve patients by providing medical consultation and advocacy support.
Common topics include aging with intent, preventive care, menopause, chronic diseases, autoimmune conditions, weight management, behavioral health, cancer and survivorship support, caregiver stress, coping with chronic pain, and referral advocacy.
In 2023, she published her first book "The Menopause Menu"—an all-in-one giftbook, medical guide, and recipe book for navigating menopause.
In this episode:🔥 A large company that got larger
🔥 The danger of leaving the "business" of medicine to someone else
🔥 A glimpse inside a doc's abrupt termination
🔥 Using your moral and ethical code as a decision making filter
🔥 The double edged sword of anger
🔥 Leveraging yourself
🔥 The value of giving freely
🔥 Into the legal weeds
🔥 Expressing your creative side
🔥 We have done a disservice to women who are going through menopause
🔥 The Menopause Menu
🔥 Choosing to spend money on things that have meaning to us
🔥 Self-publishing
🔥 Making a difficult topic educational, relatable, and fun
🔥 Transparency, honesty, and aligned incentives
🔥 The freedom to be flexible and do what is right
🔥 Living in the gain
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Baumgaertel
👩⚕️ myMDadvocate
📖 The Menopause Menu (book)
⛬ MenopauseMenu (website)
📃 MenopauseMenu (FB page)
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Episode 016 | Have you ever felt tangled in the web of healthcare law? You're not alone, and help is just a click away.
Amanda B. Hill, JD, healthcare lawyer and CEO of Guard My Practice, hears this all the time from doctors like us. She's here to help us cut through the confusion and fear. Think of her as your friendly expert, turning legal complexities into something you can not only understand but use.
We're great at medicine, and she's here to make sure legal hurdles don't slow us down. No more losing sleep over contracts or employee issues. Her courses are straightforward – no fluff, just the essential legal know-how you need without the mounting legal bills when they aren't necessary.
In her courses, she dives into contract details, regulatory compliance, and more, all tailored for a doctor's busy schedule.
She's also a true advocate for doctor's, a humorous speaker and writer, and a lovely person. Enjoy the show!
In this episode:🔥 Learning about healthcare law as preventive medicine
🔥 Becoming better at issue spotting (think before you sign!)
🔥 Why modern day docs are uniquely vulnerable to scams
🔥 You don't need a complicated skincare routine
🔥 The realization that you're just part of the machine (but don't have to be)
🔥 "I finally feel like I can breathe again."
🔥 The value of physician coaches who still practice medicine
🔥 Leveraging your expertise
🔥 Love it, learn it, or outsource it
🔥 Putting all the parts of your brain into your job
🔥 Learning and growing from trauma
🔥 Some parts of self care are hard and uncomfortable
🔥 Your life isn't over when you get fired.
🔥 Why so many of us are coming to each other's rescue
🔥 Male vulnerability
🔥 Supercommunicators and neural entrainment
🔥 If you feel lost and confused, join the club!
🔗 Connect with and learn form Amanda Hill
👩🏫 Guard My Practice
📚 Hill Health Law
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Episode 015 | I'm thrilled and grateful to bring you a recent episode of the Physicians and Properties podcast from Dr. Alex Schloe on which I was a guest.
Tune in for a great story about how I met my real estate investor agent and now business partner and plenty more.
It's an opportunity to hear me answering more than asking. It's also a peak into another part of my life that brings me joy, personal and professional growth, new relationships and challenges, and financial diversification.
The mission of the Physicians and Properties is simple and empowering: Teaching physicians how investing in real estate can give you the freedom to practice medicine and live life how you want!
If you enjoy this episode, consider checking out some more of Dr. Schloe's show. I'm grateful to him and his team for allowing us to include this episode in our feed.
If you prefer video, check out the episode on YouTube.
In this episode:🔥 How I met my investor agent and now business partner
🔥 Insight into the world of direct specialty care with a focus on dermatology
🔥 The importance of establishing a solid financial foundation on which to build
🔥 How real estate investments can provide flexibility, security, and diversification, empowering you to navigate career uncertainties and changes with confidence
🔗 Connect with and learn form Dr. Schloe / Physicians and Properties
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🎙️ Physicians and Properties Podcast
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Episode 014 | I'm excited to bring you something a bit different for which full credit goes to the wonderful and generous Janelle Ball, founder & CEO at BC Educators, LLC.
My conversation with Janelle originally appeared on her excellent podcast, That's Derm Good!, so that's why it sounds different than a typical episode of The Direct Care Derm. If you enjoy it, consider checking out some other episodes of her show.
Janelle and her team have made patient access their priority, which is a big job. If you're not a doctor and have never heard of a biologic coordinator, I'm not surprised.
These individuals and teams play a critical but often unsung role in navigating the complex, costly, and opaque road from the moment a physician in the U.S. prescribes a biologic medication to the moment the patient finally receives the first dose.
While our conversation is about my approach to holistic care within dermatology rather than the specific role of the biologic coordinator, it's important to remember the role biologic coordinators play so we can recognize and properly value the work they do.
Enjoy!
In this episode:🔥 Raising the standard of care
🔥 What is holistic dermatology? It's simple but not easy.
🔥 Patient education and empowerment
🔥 Meaningful conversations with patients take time
🔥 Patient-led peer support and accountability groups
🔥 Moving on from one-size-fits-none dermatology
🔗 Connect with and learn form Janelle Ball
👩⚕️ BC Educators
🎙️ That's Derm Good!
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Episode 013 | Dr. Mary Alice Mina is a Harvard-trained dermatologist, dermatologic surgeon, wife, mom, and skin enthusiast. She's on a mission to help educate people with real skincare, beauty, and cosmetic guidance and advice curated by true skin experts. She loves taking care of her patients at her practice, Baucom and Mina Derm Surgery, in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Mina has been practicing dermatology with a focus on dermatologic surgery for over a decade and truly loves what she does. She's also the creator and host of The Skin Real, a podcast that allows her to bring skincare education to a broader population because healthy skin begins from the inside out and requires real skincare education and guidance.
And, don't be fooled by the title, there's nothing impolite about her :)
In this episode:🔥 Holistic care for us and our patients
🔥 How our skin health impacts how we feel
🔥 Insurance -- it gets harder every year, but you can still do it
🔥 You don't need a complicated skincare routine
🔥 The value of physician entrepreneur communities
🔥 Neuroaesthetics and how creative pursuits can help doctors restore their sense of autonomy
🔥 Leveraging our expertise
🔥 You can be mad or you can change
🔥 Bathrooms full of lotions, potions, and procedures
🔥 Shout out Dove bar soap and Amarte Skin Care!
🔥 In fashion and skincare, find the core pieces that serve you
🔥 Combatting bad information with good
🔗 Connect with and learn form Dr. Mina
👩⚕️ Baucom and Mina Derm Surgery, LLC
📚 Level Up Your Skin Care Habits!
🎙️ The Skin Real podcast
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Episode 012 | Bryson Bernarde is the founder and owner of United Social Media Marketing, a digital marketing agency based in Wausau, WI.
He founded his company at age 14, making him a veteran of small business ownership and digital marketing at only 22 years old.
He's an active leader and participant in local and international Toastmasters meetings and numerous other local groups.
He recently moved back to Wausau, WI after playing college baseball in Michigan and is taking the town by storm. I'm grateful to know him.
In this episode:🔥 Buying Instagram accounts at age 14 (not recommended)
🔥 Willingness to take the L and learn valuable lessons
🔥 The courage to build a business from scratch as a teenager
🔥 Starting national, going local
🔥 Facebook ads and the value of becoming an expert
🔥 The importance of a good website
🔥 My tuition house
🔥 A flaw in our education system
🔥 Embracing your natural strengths early in life
🔥 Toastmasters International
🔥 Everything is energy
🔥 Self-awareness -- what go you here won't get you there
🔥 Getting out of your comfort zone
🔥 A place where mistakes are encouraged
🔥 Bryson's experience of Big Box Dermatology
🔥 How a recovering Big Box Dermatologist is trying to save lives
🔗 Work with and learn from Bryson
📈 United Social Media Marketing
🧠 Free Knowledge
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