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7 secrets to live your dream in 2017 →

7 Secrets to live your dream in 2017

I’m a family doc living my dream life in my dream clinic in my dream town. Now I’m spreading my love. During the past 12 years, I’ve helped hundreds of medical students, doctors, and health professionals overcome their fears so they could live their dreams in medicine.

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Is your doctor worth more than a plumber? →

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I asked a group of docs I’m coaching how much they’re worth per hour. Interesting question given docs have 11+ years of specialized training beyond high school. Surgeons spend most of their 20s and 30s in school. By the time these folks graduate, they’ve got 200K+ med school debt—before kids,

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Medical marketing: 147 ways to grow your clinic now →

Need help getting patients? Medical marketing is my specialty. In 2005, I pioneered the first ideal clinic designed entirely by patients. Six months later, my waiting list was out of control—nearly twice my number of patients. I gave the list to a new doc in town and I’ve been helping folks launch successful clinics ever since.

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Who else wants to be debt-free & quit working by 36? →

Pamela Wible Debt-Free Doctors

Want to step off the treadmill? Here’s a fool proof strategy: live debt free.

If your life seems out of balance, maybe the life you’re living isn’t your own. If you’re a doctor, nurse, midwife, med student—anyone who wants to heal the suffering in the world—my message for you is: heal yourself first—and start with your financial health. 

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An ingrown toenail is not a lung transplant (how primary care is being held hostage to tertiary care) →

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Here’s a quick review of health care delivery basics:

Primary care – Stuff you can get handled with your primary care doctor in your neighborhood. Example: ingrown toenail.

Secondary care – Stuff your primary care doctor refers to a secondary specialist down the road.

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Want to hang out with diabetic truckers with erectile dysfunction? Or hippie women with chronic yeast infections? Who’s your ideal patient? →

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Attention doctors: If you’re not attracting your ideal patients, don’t blame them. They probably have no idea how to find you. That’s your job.

So who do you really want to see? What patient population makes you excited to jump out of bed every morning?

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How to triple your income on every patient (& boycott big-box medicine) →

Okay this is Medical Economics 101. Today we’re going to talk about overhead. It is big-box medicine versus an ideal clinic. This is my true life story.

My Overhead—Before and After

When I worked at a big-box medical clinic my overhead was 74%.

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How four physicians found their dream clinics (& you can too!) →

Read full transcription of Delicia Haynes, M.D.

Read full transcription of Ann Cordum, M.D.

Read full transcription of Jennifer Zomnir, M.D. & her husband Kolin

Read full transcription of Kat Lopez,

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I work from 10 to 3. I don’t work weekends. I’m an incredibly happy doctor in my ideal clinic. →

My name is Jennifer Zomnir and I have a very important message for the doctors out there that may be suffering like I was. About two years ago I worked in a big-box clinic and I saw a lot of patients a day in 5-10 minute slots, went home at night and worked on charts,

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I was a martyr. Now I’m dating, dancing—and living my dream! →

Hi, my name is Delicia Haynes from Daytona Beach, Florida, and about a year ago, I felt stuck. I was in a clinic that I had started myself and I was seeing more and more patients just to make the overhead and I didn’t see that there was any solution in sight.

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You can’t bake a cake in 15 minutes and you can’t see an elderly patient in 15 minutes →

Hi. My name is Ann Cordum and I’m an MD internal medicine doctor. If you are a medical student, intern, resident, practicing doctor, I am here to tell you that you no longer have to put up with abuse and you no longer have to listen to administrators that are not clinical (that have no idea what it’s like to sit with a patient) tell you how fast to see patients.

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Yes! You can open your dream clinic—without completing residency. →

Hi, my name is Dr. Kat Lopez and I unfortunately know what you are going through if you are suffering in conventional medical training or a conventional treadmill medicine job. I was really afraid of going to residency because I had heard of the abuse that I would undergo.

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The history of American medicine in 2 minutes. What happens at 1:31 will make you sick. →

Once upon a time you could see your trusted family doc right in the neighborhood with house calls and all the attention you needed. Then big-box clinics bought up all these cute clinics and moved these sweet doctors to assembly-line clinics. Now doctors are like factory workers and patients are just widgets.

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Meet The Inspiring Docs Behind These Innovative Clinics →

Meet 3 physician entrepreneurs who are leading the way with innovative neighborhood clinics of the future.

Innovative Primary Care Practice Models Panel featuring: Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, D.O., pediatrician at Nourish Wellness and Pediatrics in Yakima, Washington. Pamela Wible, M.D., family physician at a community-designed Ideal Medical Clinic in Eugene,

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How to graduate medical school as a doctor, not a factory worker →

On September 17, 2015, Pamela Wible, M.D. spoke to the students at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest. Enjoy the video. Transcription below:

Jay Anderson: Tonight we have Dr. Pamela Wible. She’s here to talk to us about the adventures of setting up a solo practice,

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