Medical Innovation for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Especially the "Average Physician" - Dr. Lance Black

Episode 61 - My guest on the podcast today is Dr. Sogol Pahlavan. She’s a private practice pediatrician in Houston, TX. She has been in private practice for over a decade, growing the business steadily from 2 physicians to 8 physicians, dozens of staff, and over 10,000 patients. And, she did this all by bootstrapping it. She had no formal training in business, no MBA, but she did it anyway. As she’ll tell you, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. There were some serious challenges along the way. She’s going to tell us all about it in this week’s episode. This is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Private Practice, and it doesn’t get more real than this.

So, I just have to ask. If Dr. Pahlavan can build a thriving private practice in a big city dominated by a giant healthcare organization, and do it all with no formal training, why can’t you do it? I’m telling you, it is still possible to start and grow a private practice today. I hear stories about it from physicians all the time. There are hundreds of physicians starting, growing, or rehabilitating their practices all the time. As Dr. Pahlavan says, it is not only possible, it’s IMPERATIVE that we all as physicians take control of our businesses and our clinical practices to make them the best they can be. If we don’t, we're in danger of losing the opportunity to a big corporation that’ll come along and take over and leave us out of the loop.

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