Interview with Dr. Lara Salyer If you want to reclaim the best parts of your career after going through burnout, you'll want to hear how Dr. Lara Salyer did just that. During this week's interview, she describes how she felt when she realized that something wasn't right in her career as an employed family physician practicing in southern Wisconsin. Read More
Interview with Dr. Marjorie Stiegler On this week's episode of the PNC podcast, I had the pleasure of a return visit from Dr. Marjorie Stiegler. Marjorie shares her insights into the legal landmines that a physician encounters when starting a new business or side hustle, and offers some strategies for avoiding them. As Marjorie is a returning guest, this episode is a little different. We don't go into Marjorie's own background or the specifics of her business. If [...]
Interview with Dr. Jawad Arshad On this week's episode of the PNC podcast, John interviews Dr. Jawad Arshad, an emergency physician looking to bring much-needed transparency to the healthcare marketplace. He and his partners also intend to disrupt the health insurance industry by removing insurers from the physician-patient interaction. Background Dr. Arshad is an emergency medicine physician. He completed his medical training at SUNY Upstate Medical Center and his emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital. Read More
Don’t Follow My Example Today it's just me talking about how to select the best online business niche. I'm continuing a series of episodes on the creation of your online business. In Episode 107, I talked about building an email list. Today, I want to step back to an earlier stage in the business development process. It's the important process of deciding on your niche – your online business niche. But before we get into that, let's thank [...]
Interview with Dr. Haneen Abu-Remaileh On this week's episode of the PNC podcast, John delves into the exciting world of startups with eager entrepreneur Dr. Haneen Abu-Remaileh. Haneen is the founder and CEO of Locumunity. The company is an online marketplace matching physicians with locum positions across Canada and the US. Background Haneen completed her medical degree at the University of British Columbia, and her residency in family medicine at the University of Calgary. Like so many new [...]
Expedite Your Online Success In this week's episode, I'll be talking about three of the dumb mistakes I made while building an online business. Why focus on developing an online buisness in this episode? There are two primary reasons to do so: There is a group of you who do NOT want to get into a traditional nonclinical job, such as UM physician advisor, CDI specialist, or pharmaceutical medical director. You want something more entrepreneurial; a business that [...]
Interview with Dr. George Huang I’m intrigued by physician entrepreneurs, especially physician consultants. Today’s guest is a great example of a physician in a seemingly awesome career who chose to pivot out of medicine completely. He left a very lucrative field, plastic surgery, and moved into consulting. But it was not an easy transition. And we get to hear all about it in today’s fascinating interview. However, before we get there, I want to announce a free online [...]
Interview with CEO Matt McGuire I have a very interesting interview this week with an entrepreneur who has spent the last 4-½ years developing his international start-up company. He is not a physician, but his story is so compelling, and the technology solution so important, that I had to interview this guy. I met Matt McGuire at the Physicians Helping Physicians Conference in Austin, Texas. He was a fellow presenter, discussing the subject of entrepreneurship and his start-up. [...]
A Model Online Business In today’s show, I present my conversation with a cardiologist who has successfully built an online business by meeting an academic need. Dr. Jason Ryan is a practicing cardiologist who received his MD and MPH degrees at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2001. He followed that with an internal medicine residency and a general cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He’s been a practicing cardiologist since 2008. He's also [...]
