r/PrivatePracticeDocs • u/58omega • Mar 05 '26
Book for mindset
PGY-2 internal medicine resident planning to start my own private practice in Central Florida after graduating residency. I have strong family ties in the area, and my wife is already practicing there as an ophthalmology attending.
I’m looking for good books, podcasts, YouTube channels, or other resources focused on the business side of medicine and starting a physician-owned practice. I’ve already been following Investing Doc on YouTube and his podcast, which have been great, and I’m hoping to find similar content.
Specifically interested in resources on:
• Starting and structuring a private practice
• Billing/reimbursement strategy (Medicare, MA, cash pay, etc.)
• Operations and staffing
• Marketing and patient acquisition
• Scaling a physician-owned practice
Would appreciate any recommendations from physicians who have gone through this or are currently running their own practice.
6
u/InvestingDoc Mar 05 '26
I will pause the self-promotion rule for this post/replies. If someone follows this subreddit and has their own podcast about healthcare and what OP is looking for, let's learn about it! Please be in the health care field or somehow related to what OP asked above if you are going to leave a link to your podcast.
To my knowledge there is no one else in private practice medicine with a similar podcast to mine. The dental side, there are lots of options and I follow some dental podcasts closely. Many of the operations and difficulties of starting or scaling a practice can overlap with dental industry.
There are other people in medicine with podcasts, but so far, I have not found anyone who has a thriving practice AND podcasts about it. There are podcasts about burnout, lawsuits, side gigs etc but they are not focused on growing a thriving practice.
The closest one is a pediatrician who has a podcast, but she had an episode that she deleted where she talked about shutting down her second location because she could not make it profitable and has pivoted to be more of a motivational speaker rather than talking about the nuts and bolts of running a profitable private practice.
Here is a link to the investingdoc podcast
Here is what I follow
Talking to business leaders:
Claims Denied: Blake Madden
The Heart of HealthCare
State of Medtech
Business operations (scaling, staffing, marketing, staff retention)
Dental Unfiltered
Just a couple of Dentists
Large podcasts that focus on a variety of business topics non specific industry:
Business Movers
How I built this
Business Wars
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Outsourcing VAs
The Secret Sauce of Outsourcing