It's Not Just You with Dr. Kara Pepper Dr. Kara Pepper

 We hear from Dr. Mel Thacker as she is transitioning from her group ENT practice to a solo, direct care model of practice.  Always the non-conformist, she shares the "purpose high" that comes with deep belief that you are being pulled towards what you are meant to do and how she navigates the mixed emotions of this transition.  She shares her story to inspire listeners to not be limited by let the status quo.

 

Mel Thacker, MD, DipABLM is a double-board certified otolaryngologist and lifestyle medicine physician and a coach for surgeons. She is married with 2 young kids and lives in a suburb outside of Boston, MA.  

 

You can find Dr. Thacker on Instagram and her website. Her podcast, Surgeons with Purpose, is hosted on Spotify and iHeart. 

 

We don't often associate autonomy and culture change with large academic employers, but Dr. Kelly Wright is reinventing healthcare around these values.  "Just give your team a goal and autonomy to make it happen," says Wright, the Division Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery. She models transparency around financial goals, team based care, and how to come back to an empty inbox without working on vacation. 

 

For folks in large organizations, especially those who want a sustainable academic career, this episode is for you.  

 

You can find Dr Wright on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and her travel on points website.

Dr. Errin Weisman, a board certified Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine doctor, was no longer aligned with her work and burning out again. She did what many of us do - put her head down and kept working - until she no longer could.  We hear from her as she resigns from her job with no other employment in place.

 

We often hear stories in the aftermath of achievement while glossing over the painful, uncertain journey.  Dr. Weisman shares the fear of navigating the messy middle as a single mom.  As always, she is raw, unfiltered, and hilarious. 

 

You can find Dr. Weisman on her website, Instagram, and LinkedIn.  She is the podcast host of Doctor Me First and Burntout to Badass. 

After 20 years in traditional practice, Dr. Becky Lynn, a board certified OBGYN, started a comprehensive women's health clinic in February 2020.  From the beginning, she used her skills to pivot, grow, learn, and listen to her patients.  Evora Health evolved from a solo GYN practice to a comprehensive center for women's health with primary care, psychiatry, dietetics, therapy, acupuncture, aesthetics, reiki, physical training, and more.  

 

Dr. Lynn describes how she grows her business acumen, especially surrounding herself with support from other high achieving entrepreneurs. For any physician who is questioning if they can pivot their career, "If you went through med school, you can figure it out"

 

You can find Dr. Lynn on her website, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. 

Dr. Rachel Rubin, a board certified urologist and fellowship trained sexual medicine physician, who is carving her own path forward in practice, advocacy, and social media.  When job offers for traditional practice fell through, she created her own practice model.  She built it scared - creating a sustainable career of patient care, research, teaching - outside of academic medicine.   

 

Dr. Rubin discusses all things social media, expanding access and education, and the "Meno-posse" text chain with her collaborating colleagues.

 

You can find Dr. Rubin on her website and Instagram. 

Dr. Shane Purcell is a Family Medicine doctor and founding member of the Direct Primary Care Alliance, an organization that provides education, mentorship, and advocacy for Direct Primary Care Physicians. Dr. Purcell shares how he created one of the first DPC practices.

 

In his South Carolina practice, Dr. Purcell "provides direct primary care to restore the patient-physician relationship destroyed by administration hacks and insurance thugs. His oath is to patients, not insurance companies, administrators or the government." 

 

You can find Dr. Purcell on his website and LinkedIn and read his book, Magic, Pixie Dust, and Miracles: A Guide for Direct Primary Care and Employers.