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October 2, 2024 41 mins

In this inspiring episode, join Mike and Joe as they embark on a transformative journey through the healthcare landscape! Joe, a physician and CEO, shares invaluable insights from his entrepreneurial path, correcting mindset and the importance of adaptability and collaboration, while Mike reflects on his early days as a surgeon. They tackled the pressing challenges doctors face today, emphasizing the crucial role of adaptability and innovation in driving change. With a powerful call to action, Joe inspires physicians to unite and become catalysts for a new, improved healthcare system.

Tune in and discover how collaboration can reshape the future of medicine!

 

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Navigating Career Transitions: illustrates the importance of adaptability when faced with career setbacks. 

  • Impact of External Factors: highlights the need for healthcare professionals to remain flexible and responsive to external changes, recalibrating strategies as necessary.
  • Understanding Hospital Dynamics: recognizing the implications of mergers and the role of management can inform future career decisions.

  • Entrepreneurial Mindset: Embracing innovation and new technologies is crucial for improving patient care and operational efficiency. Both Joe and Mike advocate for a shift away from a fixed mindset, encouraging more healthcare professionals to adopt entrepreneurial approaches to problem-solving.
  • The importance of recognizing when to make a change in one’s career. Prioritizing personal well-being can lead to greater fulfillment and success in entrepreneurship.

About Dr. Joseph "Joe" Pazona

Joe creates jobs for burned-out healthcare professionals. He also helps frustrated healthcare administrators provide much-needed medical services in rural communities. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are leaving clinical medicine because they feel taken advantage of by a broken healthcare system. Simultaneously, rural healthcare executives are struggling to recruit high-quality physicians to their communities. Declining supply, increasing demand. This is not sustainable. The solution: prioritizing the healthcare team,  leveraging technological solutions (e.g. telemedicine), and engaging in collaborative conversations with physicians and administrators. 

As a physician-entrepreneur-CEO with over 15 years of experience caring for patients in rural, mid-size, and metropolitan markets, Joe understands the challenges and nuances of building a healthcare model and team to solve these issues. Before the pandemic, he formed VirtuCare, a company that partners with rural healthcare systems to implement outpatient urology clinics and surgical services. They have successfully launched services at 6 different sites across 4 healthcare systems. VirtuCare has created a new physician position of tele-urologist and offers consistent, remote work for urologists with a dynamic team.

In August 2020, Joe opened Pazona MD Urology in downtown Nashville during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with no previous business training. Within 3 years, the company has opened 2 additional offices and has recruited 6 advanced practice providers and an additional urologist all while receiving over 1000 5-star Google reviews. The mission is to scale into other specialties throughout  Tennessee and additional markets as we deliver accessible healthcare with a smile.

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