Breaking the Healthcare Mold with Easy Orthopedics | Dr. Daniel Paull on Autonomy, Burnout & Building a Cash-Based Practice

In this episode of Doctors Investor Club, Dr. Daniel Paull shares his radical journey from traditional orthopedic training to launching Easy Orthopedics — a minimalist, mobile, cash-based practice designed to eliminate burnout and bureaucracy. If you're a physician tired of insurance games, hospital politics, or lifestyle traps, this episode is your blueprint for freedom, control, and sustainable impact.

🔑 What You’ll Learn:

• Why Dr. Paull quit his hand surgery fellowship midstream
• How he built a direct-pay orthopedic practice with zero staff and zero insurance
• The hidden costs of burnout and the myth of “just sticking it out”
• How to market a mobile medical model in a saturated market
• Why chiropractors became his top referral source
• The power of behavioral psychology in building a referral network
• How to keep overhead low and profits high — even with 4 patients a day
• What most doctors get wrong about business, autonomy, and legacy
• Why freedom beats revenue (and how to design for it)

⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:55 – Quitting fellowship and moving into the in-laws’ basement
02:26 – Building Easy Orthopedics from scratch
04:34 – Burnout, bad job offers, and existential crisis
07:01 – The turning point: modeling after a med school friend’s house-call practice
08:14 – Why insurance-free was the only viable path
10:05 – Redefining success: time, control, and legacy
12:23 – Avoiding lifestyle creep and golden handcuffs
13:58 – Learning business through trial, error, and psychology
16:19 – Why insurance-based practices are unsustainable
17:54 – Refusing prior authorizations (and what happened next)
19:18 – Building a referral network from scratch
20:25 – Why chiropractors “get it” and DPC docs often don’t
22:08 – What MDs and DOs must learn from entrepreneurs

💥 About Dr. Daniel Paull:
Dr. Daniel Paull is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and founder of Easy Orthopedics, a direct-pay practice based in Colorado Springs. He’s on a mission to help physicians reclaim autonomy, eliminate burnout, and build practices that prioritize patient care over paperwork.

📲 Follow Dr. Paull:
 Website: easyorthopedics.com
LinkedIn: Daniel Paull, M.D.

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