The Prosperous Doc

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By: Spaugh Dameron Tenny

The Prosperous Doc Podcast (formerly the White Coat Wellness Podcast) is a show for doctors who are ready to improve their overall wellness in every aspect of life. In each episode we highlight real-life stories from physicians and dentists to inspire you to become a prosperous doc yourself and achieve personal, professional, and financial wellness. If you would like to know more about the Prosperous Doc show, find show notes, and learn more about our host, Shane Tenny, visit bit.ly/ProsperousDoc. SDT Disclosure: https://bit.ly/2Xc2mAU

Streamlining Hiring to Maximize Your Practice’s Performance With Dr. Michael Neal
#75
03/08/2024

Having a well-oiled team is a crucial piece of any successful business. Medical practitioners running their own practices are no stranger to the impact of employee turnover. In this episode of the Prosperous Doc®, Shane Tenny, CFP®, speaks with Dr. Michael Neal about the importance of building a strong team and hiring and retaining the right people. 

Dr. Neal practices optometry alongside his wife, Dr. Amy Neal. When they first opened their practice, he began to experience the challenges of developing a team alongside a growing business.

“We were approaching hiring team members the wrong way...


Coaching the Next Generation of Physician Scientists with Dr. Toyosi Onwuemene
#74
02/16/2024

Physicians go to school to become physicians, right? Well, most of the time that’s true. Sometimes physicians go through all their many years of med school, residency, and fellowship to find that they’re actually more interested in research. Dr. Toyosi Onwuemene is one such physician, choosing to become a clinician researcher. And she thinks there’s room for more doctors like her.

“It's very obvious that there's a deficit now that I've done a little bit more research. As clinicians, because you're so immersed in patient care, you're reading the literature, you're interpreting the literature, there's...


Bedside Manners: What Matters in Patient Communication with Dr. Scott Abramson
#73
01/05/2024

Studies from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Healthgrades have confirmed that patients overwhelmingly want their physician providers to not just be smart and technically astute, but to also show compassion, comfort, patience, personality, and bedside manner.

“The patient will never care how much you know until they know how much you care.” This quote aptly summarizes today’s episode of the Prosperous Doc®, where host Shane Tenny, CFP® welcomes Dr. Scott Abramson, a retired neurologist who practiced medicine for over 40 years with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. Dr. Abramson is also the author of a book tit...


Preserving Independent Medical Practices with Dr. Christine Meyer
#72
12/08/2023

Dr. Christine Meyer’s negative experience working as an employed physician in poorly managed medical practices motivated her to become an independent doctor and launch her entrepreneurial career with her husband. The pair believed that they could provide better patient care through their own venture. 

“I think the movement towards value-based care in medicine has been tremendous and so enjoyable. I know a lot of people feel like it’s a grind, and it’s so hard to meet these metrics and earn these incentives. But what it has done for our practice is truly improve the quality o...


Financial Literacy for Kids: How Dr. Michele Cho-Dorado Became an Author to Help Children Reach for the Stars
#71
11/10/2023

“Part of my identity was just being a doctor. I never thought I could do things outside of medicine,” says Dr. Michele Cho-Dorado, who wrote a children’s book about financial literacy and founded her own company to spread this knowledge to more children.

But Dr. Cho-Dorado didn’t start as an entrepreneur or financial literacy expert. Her own knowledge gap prompted the creative leap.

“I was about eight years into practice as an attending and already almost 40. And I just realized, at some point, despite all those years of medical school and training, I had receiv...


Taking Aim at Change: A Doctor’s Approach to Combatting Gun Violence with Dr. David Callaway
#70
10/20/2023

“We’re recording this in mid-2023,” host Shane Tenny says. “Already, there have been more mass shootings in our country than there have been days in the year. We're pacing about 330 mass shootings as it's often defined, which is atrocious.”

Hearing these numbers is jarring and figuring out how to solve this problem is downright daunting. Where does the solution begin?

On this episode of the Prosperous Doc®, our host Shane Tenny, CFP® welcomes Dr. David Callaway to discuss the complex issue of gun violence in America. Dr. Callaway brings a distinctive perspective to the conflict, ap...


9 Terms Every Dentist Should Know Before Selling to a DSO with Kevin Cumbus
#69
09/29/2023

Too many dentists leave money on the table. Kevin Cumbus, founder and president of the mergers and acquisitions advisory group TUSK Partners, returns for an encore presentation on how dental practices can understand their options and maximize their valuation before selling to a dental support organization (DSO).

In his previous interview, Kevin explained how dentists have more choices than ever for a financial exit from their practice and the importance of evaluating multiple DSOs before committing to a deal. Now, Kevin returns to the Prosperous Doc® podcast to unpack common industry jargon so every dentist can have a...


Trends in Dental Transactions and Considerations Before Selling to a DSO with Kevin Cumbus
#68
09/01/2023

Owning a dental practice is hard work. After years of serving the community and dealing with insurance companies, many dentists are ready to sell to the first person who gives them an offer. Kevin Cumbus says to wait.

Kevin is the founder and president of TUSK Partners, a firm that specializes in selling successful dental practices to dental support organizations (DSOs). TUSK has closed $850 million of deals in the past seven years, and Kevin wants every dentist in independent practice to know they have options.

Many dentists have only heard outdated advice from a financial...


Medical Missions and Expanding Your Worldview with Dr. Carlos Moretta
#67
07/28/2023

Dr. Carlos Moretta’s path into dentistry rather than medicine was, quite literally, an accident. Having decided he wanted to enroll in the radiology tech program at his local community college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dr. Moretta went up to an information desk and found he was in the wrong wing. The receptionist, instead, gave him a few brochures about the dental hygienist program, which told Dr. Moretta how much he’d get paid and how much schooling he’d need to complete. When he saw the specs, he was sold.

In this episode of the Prosperous Doc®...


Tech in Medicine: How AI and Chat GPT are Changing Healthcare with Dr. Harvey Castro
#66
06/23/2023

Dr. Harvey Castro is passionate about many things: healthcare and tech being two of them. Luckily, for the medical world, he has found a way to marry those passions and help others succeed in the healthcare and digital health sectors. 

In this episode of the Prosperous Doc®, our host Shane Tenny, CFP®, welcomes Dr. Harvey Castro to discuss the future of AI and Chat GPT in healthcare and medicine. Dr. Castro walks listeners through his own entrepreneurial experience within the healthcare sector and how he foresees AI being used to provide quality healthcare for patients.


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