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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
HR for People Who Hate HR (But Have to Do It Anyway)
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When you worked for someone else, HR was where people went when they got hired, fired, promoted, or needed to complain about the office thermostat. But once you're running the clinic, HR becomes something much bigger... and blurrier.
In this episode, we're talking about the HR stuff clinic owners don't always realize they're supposed to be thinking about: the decisions that start before your first hire, the messiness that shows up as the team grows, the job descriptions everyone ignores until there's a problem, and the legal "oh no" moments waiting around the 10–15 employee mark.
Good news: this isn't rocket science. It's just easier when someone walks you through it before you find out the hard way.
References
Struggling to fill your clinic schedule? Join our 3-day Fill Your Clinic Bootcamp! From August 18-20th, Dr. Matthea Rentea and I will be teaching the 7 marketing strategies to get more patients.
Want to join a premium, immersive experience exclusively for female clinician entrepreneurs ready to scale without sacrifice? Enrollment is now open for the next round of The Female Founders Accelerator, starting in September.
Download my free guide 6 Steps to Opening a Clinic here!
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Audio Stamps
[00:50] [What does HR actually do?] Why almost everyone's idea of HR is shaped by being an employee, not by running the show.
[03:10] [The launch phase] How HR shows up before you've even made your first hire.
[04:47] [Your first employee] Contractor vs. W-2, payroll obligations, and the misclassification risk that trips up new founders.
[07:00] [Bare bones HR] Why you can get away with a more informal HR structure up until about 10 employees.
[08:42] [Growing pains] How skipping job descriptions early on leads to confusion, performance issues, and "us vs. them" thinking down the line.
[14:27] [Crossing 15 employees] New legal obligations mean it's time to join an employer association, update your handbook, and start succession planning.
[18:07] [The 6 buckets of HR] The full scope of HR's job, and why what motivates your team may not match what you'd expect.
[21:59] [Compliance, HRIS, and strategy] The unglamorous-but-critical sides of HR, plus where AI is starting to reshape the role.
To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.