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Kara Pepper, MD Articles
You Don’t Need to Do Everything Yourself
One of the biggest shifts in building a practice isn’t clinical. It’s learning how to let go. Most physicians don’t struggle because they can’t do the work. They struggle because

Hiring Won’t Fix Your Problem
There’s a moment in every growing practice where you start thinking you just need help. And most of the time, that’s true. But what I see over and over again

The $30,000 Lesson I Didn’t See Coming
Recently in the mastermind, we talked about money. This wasn’t the planned topic but this might have been the conversation we needed anyway. Because here’s the truth. Most of us

What No One Tells You About Leasing Medical Office Space
When you start thinking about opening or expanding a practice, there’s a moment when someone says: “Just find some office space.” Then you start looking at leases. Suddenly you are

From “Kind” to “Wicked”
Recently inside the Mastermind, we had a powerful conversation with psychologist Breese Annable, PsyD about something we don’t talk about enough: The psychological shift of private practice. Many physicians move

Thinking in Patient Arcs (Not Just Marketing Tactics)
One of the things we circled back to recently in the mastermind was something deceptively simple: how patients actually find you, decide to trust you, and experience your practice. It’s
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