153 - The Physician’s Break That Led to a Book, an App, and a New Practice

What if taking a break from podcasting was the first step toward building a bigger future in medicine?

The podcast is back with a behind-the-scenes update that matters if you are a physician trying to build more income, reduce stress, and create a path away from corporate medicine. Coach JPMD opens up about the break, the book he has been writing, and the new tools he is building for doctors who want more control over their careers and finances.

In this episode, he explains why he stepped away from recording and how that pause led to a new book and a physician-focused planner app. He also shares what is coming next for the podcast and its mission to help younger physicians transition into independent practice, even without business experience.

You will learn how the upcoming book, The Independent Physician's Blueprint: A Doctor’s Story and Your Guide to a Thriving Practice with Less Burnout and True Wealth, connects to the show’s central mission.

Coach JPMD also discusses the Attending Planner app, which is designed to help physicians plan their weeks, months, and years with greater focus. The app will include a wealth-building calculator, a loan repayment calculator, gratitude exercises, and assessments to support physicians both professionally and personally.

He gives a real-world look at the challenges facing independent Medicare Advantage practices, including decreasing reimbursements, V28 changes, and rising HEDIS thresholds. He also explores why side gigs and telehealth may offer physicians additional flexibility, income, and control over their careers.

If you are a physician feeling the pressure of modern medicine and looking for practical ways to reduce burnout, build wealth, and create more independence, this is the reset episode to start with.

The show is back on a weekly schedule, and the next chapter starts now.

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Discover how medical graduates, junior doctors, and young physicians can navigate residency training programs, surgical residency, and locum tenens to increase income, enjoy independent practice, decrease stress, achieve financial freedom, and retire early, while maintaining patient satisfaction and exploring physician side gigs to tackle medical school loans. 

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Yes, I am back. Back recording podcasts again. Welcome back to another episode where I help younger physicians decrease stress and increase income by transitioning from corporate to independent practices, even without any business experience. As Ricky Ricardo would have told Lucy, Lucy, you've got some explaining to do. So today is an episode about explaining why I took a break. What's happening this week and what's happening next month. So uh it's been uh it's been a while, since I guess 2025, December 2025, when I uh wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It's the same mission, same same mission, same concept, uh at the podcast, and that is to help physicians decrease stress and generate wealth in this crazy world we're living in. And so What happened? Well, what happened was I took a break to do something I've always wanted to do for a very long time, especially since starting the podcast and just understanding and interviewing so many different people um on the podcast that can that has helped and has helped even me understand the business of medicine better. And so I um endeavored in writing a book. And so that book is coming out next month. So that is one of the things I've been doing. And with that, I also decided to create an attending planner app that helps physicians focus, focus on planning their week, their month, their year. Uh it's kind of analogous to a paper planner, but it's on an app. And that app will also include a wealth building calculator, as well as a loan repayment calculator, some gratitude exercises that you can do. Um Some assessments that you can take, all of which is related to what we talk about in the book.

So the title of the book is going to be The Independent Physicians Blueprint: 2:02

A Doctor's Story and Your Guide to a Thriving Practice with Less Burnout and True Wealth. So that's coming out next month. It's with the publisher now, and hopefully things will be on track. I don't have a date yet, but I will hopefully be able to convey that date to you and the audience. Um, so in that In the past eight, 10 months, I've also been solidifying my Medicare Medicare Advantage practice. If you're in the MA space, yeah, you know that things have been rough the past couple of years. And it's important to really solidify the base of what I've been doing over the past couple of years. And uh with decreasing reimbursements and uh V28, uh increasing thresholds for HETIS, these are things that have been really tough to to manage, and I needed to do that and be really focused on that. I also started a telehealth company and through Coach GPMD. And that was something I I did not see coming, but it was something that I thought was important to understand, start, and um kind of help also physicians that are looking to do side gigs. Um, because we all um have desires and have things that we want to do that can can be hard to do if you're working for someone else. So with a um t telehealth uh clinic or telehealth practice, we're able to help independent physicians kind of pool together and and pool our resources together so that we can care for patients in a different way, in a way that can help them understand the business of medicine, but also generate a significant amount of revenue as well. Lastly, I want to give a shout out to my marketing team, uh Visionary Marketing, who has helped me get to This point where we can um do a lot of things that I wasn't able to do by myself. So um shout out to the visionary marketing team out there, Sierra Fa and uh Faith and uh as well as Melissa. So uh I wanted to do that. I wanted to share that with you guys and gals, and um also let you know that the episodes will start hitting every week. next episode is next Tuesday, and that's gonna be an episode on shockwave therapy and how physicians I think need to really pay attention. to Shockwave. See you next week. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you'd like to hear more, subscribe, follow, on your favorite podcast app so you'll never miss an episode.