09/12/2026
You left employed medicine.
But there’s a pattern I see women physicians bring with them into private practice:
If there’s a problem, I should be able to figure it out.
The documentation is clunky? You compensate.
The workflow doesn’t work? You add three steps.
Someone else could do it? It feels faster to do it yourself.
There’s a tool you don’t understand? Obviously you should learn everything about it.
And because you’re a physician, this works.
That’s the problem.
Your competence can keep a dysfunctional system running for a very long time.
It did in employed medicine.
Don’t let it do the same thing in the practice you built to give yourself more autonomy.
Before you solve the next annoying problem by working harder, ask:
How can I make this easier?
Not more impressive.
Not more sophisticated.
Not perfect.
Easier.
Because the goal isn’t simply to own a private practice.
It’s to build one that is sustainable, profitable, and doesn’t require you to recreate the job you worked so hard to leave.
If you keep finding yourself at the center of every problem in your practice, that’s exactly the kind of thing I look at in an Unlock Session.
Sometimes one conversation is enough to see what you couldn’t see from inside it.
