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
Stop Dreading Mondays: Find the Patients You’re Meant to Serve
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Identifying your ideal patient isn't just a marketing exercise. It’s the difference between loving your clinic and dreading Monday mornings.
If you ever leave the clinic feeling completely drained and wonder, why does this feel so hard? The problem may not be your workload. It may be misalignment. Some patients bring out your best work, leaving you feeling confident, engaged, and energized. Others leave you feeling bored, overwhelmed, or ready to quit by the end of the day. That doesn't make you a bad clinician. It means not every patient is your ideal patient.
In this episode, you'll learn how to identify who energizes you, uncover what they're really struggling with, and design care that creates better results for everyone, including you.
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!
Book a free brainstorming session with me
Audio Stamps
[00:50] [The misalignment problem] Burnout often comes from seeing the wrong patients, not from workload.
[03:00] [Warning signs] Burnout, boredom, and overwhelm as clues to misalignment.
[06:00] [Spotting your ideal patient] What to look for in your own clinic days to identify who you serve best.
[09:00] [The 3-step framework] Complaint, problem, solution: turning patient insight into sharper marketing.
[13:00] [Framework in practice] What complaint, problem, and solution look like for a specific specialty.
[15:00] [Designing around them] Turning the avatar into clinic structure — and a challenge to reflect on your last 10 patients.
To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.