Rethinking Healthcare: From Burnout to Brotherhood

In this episode of The Curbside HealthCast, Dr. Brady Steineck; family physician and CEO of Community Healthcare; shares a bold and deeply personal call to transform modern medicine. After years of navigating a broken system that rewards procedures over people, Brady realized something radical: healthcare isn’t about treating diseases; it’s about serving lives. With 19 primary care clinics across five Ohio counties, he’s leading a movement rooted in relationship, not bureaucracy.

Dr. Steineck challenges the disjointed, specialist-heavy, burnout-inducing model we've come to accept as "normal" healthcare. Instead, he paints a vision of care that includes helping patients get groceries, walk through grief, and build healthy habits that ripple into their families and communities. Healthcare, he argues, must be neighborly, relational, and radically honest about what it takes to truly heal. This episode lays the foundation for reimagining the entire system; from care coordination to leadership, from payer relationships to provider incentives. If you're ready to restore purpose to medicine and lead with compassion, this is where the conversation begins.

Key Takeaways:

Modern healthcare often treats symptoms, not lives.

True healing starts with relational connection, not prescriptions.

The system isn't too big to change; it just needs realignment.

Physicians must lead by seeing patients as whole people.

Community Healthcare proves people-first care is sustainable; and scalable.

“Healthcare isn’t a process or a procedure; it’s a relationship. And none of us heals in isolation.”