Your First 100 for Medical Practices & Entrepreneurs

Dr. Jeffrey Michaelis is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician. Together with his colleagues, he was able to start and sell a private practice. He then started a podcast Justice in Scrubs. In this podcast we discuss his incredible career trajectory, lessons learned from running a private practice, and the value of a personal touch with patient career (ie what many would call "the basics" like checking in with phone calls). It was an absolute pleasure to talk with him!

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 p...

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!

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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...

Gil Carvalho, MD PhD is a physician, research scientist, and science communicator. He is the founder of the YouTude channel Nutrition Made Simple, which is watched by over 500,000 people monthly. Dr. Carvalho trained as a medical doctor at the University of Lisbon, and later obtained a PhD in Biology from Caltech (California Institute of Technology).   In this episode, we discuss how he developed his massive. I hope you enjoy this episode!

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...

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!

In this Episode Dr. Younglove discusses how she started her medical practice, how public speaking drove patient acquisition, and lessons learned from medical operations.

This episode is a little bit different. Rather than interviewing a physician who has an established practice, I thought it would be fun to interview a physician who is in the thick of founding her practice. In this episode we discuss the type of practice Dr. Armoush is trying to start and her progress so far.

A valuable 60-second bite on how to build a referral network with other medical practices. From our recent episode with Dr. Pazona.

In this episode we discuss how to get reviews for your practice Google profile, how to build a referral network with other physicians, and the practicality of brainstorming the type of practice you want to run.

Dr. Warren Silverman is the founder of both Workplace Forensic s and Access Health Systems. He has served as a medical director and consultant on countless other medical entities. He also has a distinguished consulting career. In this interview we discuss how he got started with his first medical practice. We also discuss how he got into global medicine.

Dr. Mario Amaro is the Founder & CEO of Ease. Ease is a platform that makes it easier for physicians to launch and/or franchise their medical practice. He has shepherded many physicians through the process of launching their practice. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Amaro and his team were one of 20 teams selected out of 2,000 applications to participate in the Amazon AWS Startup Program.

In this episode, we discuss how to build a virtual audience, and how to leverage that audience into your initial group of patients. Enjoy!

Dr. Christine Bishara runs a From Within Medical. From Within Medical is a medical practice that focuses on gut health, weight loss, and wellness. This practice offers aesthetic services as well.

In this podcast we discuss Dr. Bishara's journey of growing From Within Medical from scratch during the COVID pandemic. We discuss how Dr. Bishara went from 0 to over 10K followers on Instagram, and the dos and don't of using Instagram. We also talk about other best practices for growing your medical practice.