The Physician Business Podcast
The Physician Business Podcast is your weekly resource for building, growing, and sustaining a profitable private medical practice—without burning out.
Hosted by Amanda Sabicer, an MBA graduate with healthcare experience and over a decade of experience working with startups, talks on the podcast specifically to physicians who want to leave corporate medicine and launch or scale their own independent clinics.
Each episode covers practical business strategies, private practice management tips, and mindset tools to help you create a successful, burnout-free clinic. We dive into topics like entrepreneurship, physician burnout, clinic operations, human resources, and bookkeeping.
🎙️ Weekly episodes
💼 Built for private practice physicians
🩺 Focused on sustainability, profit, and freedom
Whether you're planning to leave your job, already running a clinic, or somewhere in between—this podcast gives you the real-world tools to thrive as an independent physician.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only.
The Physician Business Podcast
Three Things Thriving Independent Clinicians Get Right First
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You’re seeing more patients than ever… but somehow delivering less care. The visits are shorter. The admin is endless. The pressure to produce more never really lets up. And over time, it can start to feel like corporate medicine is extracting everything it can from you: your time, your energy, and your expertise.
After hearing this pattern repeatedly, I had an “aha” moment from my clean energy days: corporate medicine runs like a fossil fuel system. High output, centralized control, short-term gain, and hidden long-term costs like burnout, turnover, and the painful gap between the care clinicians want to give and the care the system allows.
In this episode, I explore what it means to build something more sustainable: a clinic rooted in clear values, a defined mission, and renewable energy. Your energy. Because when those three things align, you stop running on empty and start building something that restores both you and your patients.
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Audio Stamps
[00:50] [Intro] Amanda's "aha" moment connecting her clean tech past to the work she does with clinicians today
[04.22] [The philosophy] The three core components of a sustainable business
[05:35] [Fossil fuel medicine] The uncomfortable parallels between big oil and corporate/insurance-based healthcare
[08:45] [The antidote] Why helping clinicians go independent is the clean energy movement of healthcare
[10:48] [The sustainable clinic] What a regenerative, patient- and physician-centered practice actually looks like
[14:20] [The three pillars] Why values, mission, and personal energy have to come before anything else
[17:03] [The domino effect] Why getting the three pillars right makes everything else (schedules, boundaries, revenue model) click into place
To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.
Applications for the next cohort of the Female Founders Accelerator are being accepted! The Female Founders Accelerator program is a 10-month high-touch, small group clinic business program designed specifically for female clinicians looking to start and scale their own practices. You can learn more about the Female Founders Accelerator program by visiting www.amandasabicer.com/femalefounders. We'd love to see you inside!