Telemedicine Talks

#17 - From ER Chaos to Telemedicine Freedom: Dr. Eric Wright’s Journey

Episode Summary

Dr. Eric Wright, an ER physician turned telemedicine entrepreneur, shares his transition from a high-pressure trauma center to building a flexible, fulfilling career in virtual care, offering insights for physicians seeking new paths.

Episode Notes

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In this episode, host Dr. Leo Damasco sits down with Dr. Eric Wright, to explore his transformative journey into telemedicine. After 12 years in a level-two trauma center and building successful businesses with his wife, Dr. Wright pivoted to virtual care to escape the burnout and rigid schedules of ER life. He discusses the challenges of obtaining multiple state medical licenses, the entrepreneurial opportunities in telemedicine, and how he now balances family life with leadership roles in men’s health and wound care. From coaching his son’s T-ball team to providing fractional medical director services, Dr. Wright highlights the flexibility and impact of telemedicine. This episode is a must-listen for physicians considering a shift to virtual care or seeking to blend clinical expertise with business innovation.

Three Actionable Takeaways:

  1. Invest in Medical Licenses – Obtain multiple state medical licenses to maximize telemedicine opportunities, enabling you to market yourself nationally and replace clinical income.
  2. Embrace the Future of Medicine – Recognize telemedicine’s growing role in healthcare and start early to leverage its potential in clinical and leadership roles.
  3. Explore Diverse Roles – Look beyond direct clinical care to opportunities like medical director positions or business consulting within telemedicine companies to diversify your career.

About the Show:
Telemedicine Talks explores the evolving world of digital health, helping physicians navigate new opportunities, regulatory challenges, and career transitions in telemedicine.

About the Guest:
Dr. Eric Wright is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, entrepreneur, and telemedicine innovator. After 12 years in a Charleston, South Carolina trauma center, he transitioned to virtual care, leveraging his entrepreneurial background to build a flexible career. Dr. Wright now focuses on men’s health, prescribing treatments like clomiphene, and serves as a fractional medical director for a wound care company and aesthetics firms. He also runs 1099 Tax Doctor, helping 1099 physicians with tax mitigation. A father of five, he values telemedicine’s flexibility to prioritize family and fitness.

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericwrightmd/ 
Website: https://www.1099taxdoctor.com/ 
Email: info@1099taxdoctor.com

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Episode Transcription

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Speaker 1: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to telemedicine Talks. We have a great guest for you today. It's my good buddy, Dr. Eric Wright, er, doctor, entrepreneur, super parent, and really overall an awesome person. I first met Eric, in our telemedicine community when we were , learning how to do telemedicine and helping each other grow.

 

And just got to know him really well, and watch him blossom as a telemedicine doctor. And mind you, he was not a slouch before this, he had businesses. He had a great practice. Using telemedicine. He helped his business grow and it's just great to talk to him to see.

 

where he came from, what he was doing with telemedicine, where he's at now. So Eric, thank you so much for joining us. It is our honor that you are

 

Speaker 2: here. Yeah, Leo, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. I'm thrilled to be here and have a conversation

 

Speaker 1: with you. Yeah. So again, tell me about, where you started, you got in telemedicine and we're gonna go through that a little later, but.

 

Tell me before telemedicine, [00:01:00] where were you at?

 

Speaker 2: Yes, I was a practicing ER doctor. I'd been hitting it pretty hard for, 12 years outta residency. Spent two years in Augusta, Georgia, then moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where I am currently with my wife and five children now. We moved to Charleston to open our first business and I'd been practicing at a local, level two trauma center here in Charleston.

 

So I've been doing that for about 10 years and we had, in that time not only had all of our kids, but also got into a lot of entrepreneurship and built some businesses and just had a, lot going on. But it was really fun moving to a new city. And taking a new job in a new hospital while simultaneously launching a business with my wife.

 

And, Jenna and I were both involved in the business and she managed it for the most part. But, whenever we were out at dinner, hanging out. We had a business. We were growing and talking about together and just making plans and strategizing and we're both very kind of entrepreneurial minded and ambitious in that [00:02:00] regard and just added a whole, very fun dimension, to our marriage in addition to, the whole family and kid thing as well.

 

So yeah, I was just doing, er full time and up until about a year and a half ago, got into the Telemed thing

 

Speaker 1: and now before we go into what you're actually doing, telemedicine. So what made you start thinking about telemedicine? It sounds like you, you're doing great, right? You're doing great.

 

Stable of kids. I don't know how you do it. God bless you. You have this great business with your wife, so why make that pivot, if everything was going so

 

Speaker 2: good. Yeah, when I first got out of residency, I kinda realized emergency medicine has a shelf life. I did not want to be working a full slate of shifts in, in my fifties, into my early sixties before I retire doing nights and weekends and holidays.

 

And so I've always been entrepreneurial minded, going back to when I was a kid, starting, lawn care businesses and that sort of thing. And, during medical school, I was [00:03:00] actually day trading on the side before, back when it was just E-Trade, $10 a trade, and, was doing that sort of thing with day trading.

 

My, my student loan money that I could afford to possibly lose if I had to. But, but so I, I was, very financial minded before even finishing residency, but I realized when I finished I wanna try to build a, like a passive income stream. I'd like to build a business or, branch out outside of medicine and develop multiple income streams.

 

And that would allow me the freedom to be able to cut back on my shifts when I get into my late thirties, forties, fifties. And so I'm not just relying on. Practicing emergency medicine full time with the demands that calls for on your body and your mind and your soul and all of that stuff.

 

And these companies, my wife and I started, we did pretty well. And I was. Getting pretty close to the point to where I could start cutting back on shifts. Yeah. And it just so happens that Wiley Sunir, Chand one of my clients from my tax [00:04:00] business that I run, I help physicians specifically 10 99 physicians on tax mitigation.

 

And he was a client. He had approached me to come participate in this telemedicine training course that, that he was doing all in Remote Physician Academy. To plug them. And so he said, Hey it'd be nice if we could have you on as a kind of a business coach and introduce people to the world of being an independent contractor and how you go about that.

 

And he explained what you guys were doing. I. And I thought this sounds really cool, but there's a, some degree of significant upfront investment. Yeah. A bunch of state medical licenses and all 50 states and all the work involved with that. And so I wasn't going to do it. I was initially like, ah, I've got other businesses and I'll just keep doing the ER thing and I'll just right.

 

Slowly cut my shifts back and it was my wife Jenna that, Heard about this and was like, are you crazy?

 

Speaker 1: You're doing this as a voice of reason.

 

Speaker 2: And she [00:05:00] totally pushed me

 

Speaker 1: into it. It's funny 'cause a lot of doctors that go into this too, it was not their idea. It's the voice of reason that comes back and, just.

 

Can step away and you're like, what are you doing? Because you're right, it's not an easy transition. There is a big up cost front with especially the licenses, it's in the tens of thousands. And if you're not ready mentally and financially to make that jump, it's hard.

 

It's hard. Yeah. And sometimes you need the voice of reason, yep. The better half to push you that way. And yeah, you made the jump. Yeah. Thank you Jenna. And thank goodness. And what was that jump like for you? so you're already entrepreneurial mindset, right?

 

you were day trading your, student loans , so you're used to this level of risk, right? Some, a lot of times. That mindset and that level of risk or how risk oriented you are, your risk profile is one of the major kind of speed bumps in that road.

 

But you've already proven to yourself, to everybody else that Yeah. I'm willing to take a [00:06:00] little risk, but what did you find as your major speed bumps along the way while you were getting there?

 

Speaker 2: Yeah I think I started to realize pretty quickly what essentially being nationally licensed allowed you to do and how you can market yourself and how that would differentiate yourself from, most other professional physicians out there.

 

So I saw right away, . Kinda just trusting the process. Yeah. And going through and taking the time and learning all the things I needed to learn. But it did come to a point to where I was doing some telemedicine, but it wasn't, in the beginning, I only maybe had, I.

 

20 or 30 medical licenses and I was like trying to get some telemedicine jobs. Yeah. And I was making a few bucks here and there, and I was not anywhere close to replacing my clinical income. Yeah. But I did see how it could

 

Speaker 1: grow.

 

Speaker 2: And I had a feeling that it might grow rather quickly, and so I went ahead and just decided to take the plunge.

 

And [00:07:00] I gave my medical director, I had a contractual 90 day notice, and so I'm gonna put My notice in, I better be making enough money in 90 days to replace my clinical income. And we had other irons in the fire, so at least I had enough of a, a cushion to wear it, wouldn't have been the end of the world.

 

So that was very fortunate, but it was a big step. And to come to find out, so they were at my shop, at my hospital. They were a little short staffed, and she was like, Hey, can you give me six months? I'm like, oh,

 

Speaker 1: six months. Oh, that's a long time. From

 

Speaker 2: 90 days. I was like I can do six shifts.

 

Can you do eight? I'm like, ah, all right, fine. I'll. Three to four months into that six months, telemedicine had ramped up so much that I was now. really losing money by going in and working at the

 

Speaker 1: hospital.

 

Speaker 2: Yeah. And I was just trying to give away all my shifts, frankly, Hey, come one, please.

 

In [00:08:00] fact, getting to the point to where I was having to offer people, a shift subsidy to come work for me, no. I was paying people to work my ER shift so that I could stay home and do. Telemedicine. So yeah it was great. there was a period there where it was like, oh, dad, I'm doing too much.

 

I need to get rid of these clinical shifts.

 

Speaker 1: And you made enough at that time where like even if you're subsidizing, you're basically paying people to take your shifts, that it still was worth staying at home,

 

Speaker 2: right? Yeah, a

 

Speaker 1: hundred percent. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And what I also tell people, Hey, at home there's less poop being slung at you.

 

Yes, less emotional stress. You're not running and gunning. No. And yeah. the quality of life is so much

 

Speaker 2: better. And yeah. No I loved practicing in the er and I loved, you can do really important things. You can save lives. Yeah. Like I did that for, 15 years.

 

It's just, the reality is that a lot of the time, that only happens every so often. While a lot of the patient [00:09:00] interactions are very stressful and not nearly as. Rewarding. No.

 

Speaker 1: So that's it's tough, right? It's tough. Yeah. And one of my coworkers, when I was explaining what I was doing and transitioning just like you were, they were like you're not saving lives.

 

I'm like I could argue against that. First of all, you're right. You know what's the percentage of lives I actually saved during an ER shift? And if you've listened to my other podcast or the other episodes, the previous episodes, there's different ways that you could change lives doing telemedicine as well, but, so yeah there's that kind of satisfaction there too. It's different, but, yeah. With way less poop being slung at you. Yeah. what are you doing now and how has it changed? So Yeah. Now that you've done telemedicine, you've had these other corollaries too, what can you say is different?

 

Speaker 2: Yeah. NowI was just talking to my wife today and discussing so we, our house in Charleston, we live on Daniel Island. It's a nice little community outside Charleston, and we live in a park. There's a little 22 acre park behind our house.

 

[00:10:00] Beautiful. There's grand Live oaks and palm trees with Uplighting that comes on at night. It's like moonlight at Magnolias, midnight, the Garden of Good and Evil type like Savannah, Charleston. It's just beautiful. And they have events in this park and one of our favorite is every maid there's concert in the park and the community puts this on and they bring a big jazz band with horns and everyone comes and I.

 

Pitches, little tents and has picnics and wine and it's just, music under the stars. And it's so much fun 'cause all of our friends from the community will join us. And the kids are all running around with all of their friends. And guess what, when they the weekend will always change in May when they decide to do it and they give you a, maybe three weeks notice.

 

In the ER I need at least two months to be able to request a day off. To make sure I get a day off. And so at least half the time I couldn't go to this beautiful, event behind my house because I didn't have enough notice to be able to, take a shift off and nobody wants to work a Saturday night to pick up a [00:11:00] shift for you.

 

So just today, this, concerts, talking to Jenna and they just announced it a a week and a half ago, and it's for for next weekend. I just immediately, I was like, oh, about to check my calendar. I'm like, oh, wait a minute. I don't have to check my calendar because. I can just do things now.

 

I don't have to worry if I'm working or not. This random Thursday night or Right. Another example, so I coached my 6-year-old son's t-ball team. Could never do that as an ER doctor, because guess what I, it's games are Saturday mornings. Yeah. And half of Saturday mornings I'm probably working and the practices on, Thursday evenings, half of those I'm probably working.

 

Yeah. And so you can't commit to doing something on an ongoing. Basis with a random monthly schedule. So just being able to coach my son's t-ball team to show up and be there every Thursday or every Saturday or whenever that could carve out the time to, to do that without having to worry about being at the [00:12:00] hospital.

 

Just, that's just such a blessing to be able to have control over my schedule, to be able to do things like that with my family, and that's really what I value. Being there for my kids and my wife and my family and being available and obviously providing for them too. I wanna be there,

 

Speaker 1: And that says volumes, right? That says volumes because, I always say, you spend the most time with your kids before they're 18, right? And 18 you're no longer cool. Honestly, I could argue you're no longer cool after 13, but still, right?

 

And a lot of doctors that move into telemedicine, it's not necessarily the monetary goal. That's just secondary, right? It's really the time, right? For ER doctors, what's the common life expectancy? Like 58, I think. Ridiculous. Transitioning over, you've bought a few more decades, hopefully. Yeah, right?

 

Gosh. 58 and now. Yeah. You're spending time with your kids, right? You're doing what you want to do when you wanna do it on your own time, and you don't have to ask anybody, right? This movie in the park. Obviously their [00:13:00] schedulers is not made for doctor schedules. They're not thinking about doctors far in advance. But it's awesome that you're able to be like, Hey, I am free. I'm gonna make myself free if I'm not, and i'm gonna do this for my family. Yep. And that's awesome. Yeah, a hundred percent. What are life lessons that you could share with people thinking about going to telemedicine?

 

What are your, let's say, top three things that you can impart? 'cause now you're successful, obviously, and again, you were successful, but, transitioning to telemedicine helped you build on that, right? What what are your top three things that you could tell people that, Hey this is what I've learned, and Yeah,

 

Speaker 2: here we go.

 

Yeah I think. The first, this is obvious or redundant, but you need a lot of medical

 

Speaker 1: licenses.

 

Speaker 2: I think to be very successful I'm sure there's things out there you can do with fewer licenses and do okay. But if you really want to replace your clinical income or be able to make a career out of it, the more [00:14:00] medical licenses, the better.

 

So that's the first thing I realized. . I never would've thought of that or realized that I'm gonna go get 51 medical licenses. Like that never would've even entered my mind. Like, why, what kind of crazy person would do something like that? But, oh, there's actually a lot of entrepreneurial opportunity out there.

 

Because it's the future of where everything is headed. The future of medicine is telemedicine. It's online medicine. It's on demand medicine. It's going to drastically cut the costs and the hassle and expand the access. And there's certain things that, you won't be able to do via telemed like surgery, what's gonna be doing surgery in the future, robots.

 

It's already happening. Neuralink actually uses robots to insert the chips in the brain that's now causing did you see the guy that had a LS and couldn't talk? Now he's speaking in his own voice using a chip in his

 

Speaker 1: brain with ai really? And that was all done with AI

 

Speaker 2: and robots. Yeah. Gosh, they're using robot surgeons.[00:15:00]

 

That's crazy. That's crazy. But anyway, it's, it's the future and that's maybe the next thing is that I saw some statistic that like, something like between 60 and 80% of physicians use some aspect of telemedicine in their practice, but this is only getting bigger and bigger and growing.

 

It is the future. It, technology is the future and it would be good to get. Into it earlier rather than later. Absolutely. So that's kinda the next thing I learned is like this is the future. And even in the er, five years ago we used to have neurologists that would be on call and come down for strokes and then.

 

That was replaced by tele neurology, and they would beam in on a robot and they, do everything that a neurologist can right there at the bedside on a video chat, and they're just on demand. then we had telepsychiatry and then all of this is being integrated in clinical practice in the last five to 10 years that you never would've thought.

 

10 years ago. Yeah. That this would've been, code strokes via telemedicine and like now it's normal. Like now a lot of hospitals, [00:16:00] maybe most hospitals are doing things like that. So yeah, the medical licenses the fact that telemedicine is the future and is gonna be touching every aspect of what we're doing very quickly.

 

And then, ah, what's another lesson I learned all this, there's a lot more to it than just direct clinical care. Sothere's plenty of opportunity for clinical care, but I had seen telemedicine, especially as an ER doctor is oh, it's urgent care consult.

 

Yeah. So were just trying not to dispense Zacks

 

Speaker 1: over the phone. You jump on a video, it's like this, patients dah. 15 minutes, 20 minutes,

 

Speaker 2: and then breaks, and then they, want their Z-pack.

 

Speaker 1: And I'm like absolutely.

 

It's always my antibiotics. I need it.

 

Speaker 2: Yeah, and I haven't done any of that. I haven't even touched any kind of like urgent care. I don't think I've prescribed a Z-Pak since I went into telemedicine. That's awesome. But there's just so much other things that you can do entrepreneurial wise being involved in leadership of telemedicine companies that gives you the opportunity to expand your [00:17:00] administrative skillset and, i, some several companies I'm working with, being involved with them clinically has allowed me to see their operations and me bringing in not only the medical background, but also the business and entrepreneurial background. Jen and I have built seven figure businesses and sold them off.

 

We understand what it takes for efficiencies and processes And so going into some of these medical companies then being like, Hey guys, you could be doing this a lot better from the business standpoint as well. This is, you make this change, it's gonna be better for patient care, but it's also gonna be better for, patient retention.

 

And which translates into, the bottom line for the company. Which, it's ideal if you can do whatever you're doing is good for patients and it makes money great. If you can do both of those great patient care first, but if you can do both, great. But being able to have that ability to help out in that capacity

 

Speaker 1: as well actually that's a good point that you bring, right?

 

So you're finding that we could be leaders in [00:18:00] this space , now in the brick and mortar space, I think, there's only far and few between where physicians, doctors are actually leaders. I think we gave up that kind of leadership roles a long time ago. So if you don't mind sharing what are you up to, how do you find yourself as a leader in this space now, given that your background and your experience?

 

You mentioned that Yeah. You're helping some companies out. Can you share what you're actually up to

 

Speaker 2: nowadays? Yeah. A lot of what I do is in men's health. Yeah. So I am, a bit of a gym rat. I have an

 

Speaker 1: entire, whole shift. I can't tell if anybody sees this video, you should.

 

See these guys guns anyways.

 

Speaker 2: Fully natural. I do not do steroids to totally natty here, but I do have a home gym that, it's a little over the top. There's a pec deck and press there's a combo leg press hack squat, a full squat rack, power cage with cable crossover.

 

So I've got all the goodies, and I put that in when we had our twins. Yeah. Because I realized, oh, we have a 3-year-old, we about to have twins. I'm not [00:19:00] gonna be playing a lot of golf. Whatever I do, my hobby's gotta be at home video. That's right. It's gotta be at home, so like I'm just gonna get swollen.

 

Speaker 1: I was about to say, how do you do that with. Five kits. That's amazing.

 

Speaker 2: That's it. That, but that's what you do. You put, you do your little home gym thing and then you don't have to go anywhere. And so you just that's your hobby, right? So no, it's nice. So one thing that's great about Telemed is that, I can spend an hour a day.

 

In the gyms, and I do like between nine 30 and 10:30 AM That's like my weightlifting time. Yeah. That's go up and hit the gym and kill it and then, come out and get a protein shake and do some more work and,

 

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Life is scheduled around work. Work scheduled around life.

 

Exactly. Yeah. You put in your time first and then you're like maybe I'll work during

 

Speaker 2: my time,

 

Speaker 1: and that's

 

Speaker 2: amazing. So anyway, that, that's the background to all this is I've always really loved weightlifting and I'm just really into it. I love the science behind it.

 

Yeah. I love how you can manipulate variables between training volume and dietary [00:20:00] variables, and you can see the outcome. So if you want to gain 10 pounds of muscle. Oh, there's a way to do that, but you're gonna have to put on at least 20 pounds of weight. And there's a way you do that in terms of how you eat and how much protein you have to intake, and, but you follow the process and put all the variables in play and like you see those changes.

 

So I like the science behind it, but so I, I'm really passionate about. Fitness and big muscles and being strong and this is something I'm into, it's

 

Speaker 1: my

 

Speaker 2: hobby. Yeah. And so right now I do a lot of men's health kind of clinical care. I prescribe a lot of in Clomophine, which is it's aer it's basically one of the isomers that's present in c Clomid.

 

And when women take it, they ovulate. But when men take it just. Raises their testosterone. And so in clomophine it's cheap, it's extremely well tolerated, minimal side effects. It usually doubles your free and total testosterone levels. And that's enough for guys that are in their forties and fifties that have natural decline in testosterone to notice a boost [00:21:00] and they can now perform better in the gym and they can recover better and they can get.

 

Know, have better workouts and better body composition, and that causes improvements in mood and overall energy levels. And it's safer and cheaper than TRT. So I'm really in, into that. Among other things. So I've carved out a niche of something that I enjoy. I've done a lot of weight loss with GLP ones, with the end of compounding I'm not doing that as much anymore.

 

I really prefer like the men's health space and so that's clinically what I'm doing. But I'm also involved with with a couple companies. One is a really cool wound care company Oh, wow. Which is, as an ER doctor right up our alley. Yeah. But it's a company that they'll send nurse practitioners and physician assistants, mid-level providers into patient's homes.

 

And so they'll go do house calls for patients that are non-ambulatory that may not be able to access care in terms of getting to a wound care clinic. They'll go into rural areas, underserved areas, and they'll do weekly wound care and they'll go in. So I supervise [00:22:00] this and direct provide supervision for those services.

 

It's a great company called Wells Care. it's growing. They're in Utah, South Carolina, soon to be other states as well. But a really cool company. And then I work with a, another company providing fractional medical director services for some aesthetics. When I got into Telemed, I did a whole bunch of CME, a whole bunch of CME and courses in obesity medicine. I got certifications in wound care, went and got training and certifications in basic aesthetics, basic Botox, basic fillers just so I'd be comfortable with it and would have the experience and training to be able to do it so that I could potentially do what I'm doing now, which is providing kind of supervisory services in that sort of capacity.

 

, There's more to it than just clinical care. You can do all the clinical care you want, but there's also kind of business and medical director opportunities that are really

 

Speaker 1: cool. I. And that's amazing. And that's a good point. You're, you could take what you want and take what fulfills you, right?

 

And you could take these little pieces and go from there. [00:23:00] like you were saying, it's not just this acute care, but you pop on for 15 minutes, give your Z-pack and go, you see your face when you're talking about this. You're excited about it, and right after 15 years of the er, yeah, you're excited to go to shift.

 

But this is, a different type of excitement. You're excited to build new things, you're excited to branch out. And as doctors too, we're trained to do that. You probably didn't use these skills as much in the er, how much Klain did

 

Speaker 2: you like?

 

Speaker 1: With your skills as a doctor and knowing how to pivot, it was possible.

 

Maybe not the easiest but possible for you to pivot and go down along that route and do it well. So that's amazing to hear. That's amazing to hear. Congratulations, by the way. Yeah. That's

 

Speaker 2: super awesome.

 

Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Yeah. So where do you think, this whole telemedicine thing's gonna be and where are you gonna be in five, 10 years you think?

 

Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I like the growth in certain areas, like I was mentioning with the wound care. Like what a cool program to be able to do wound care in people's homes. [00:24:00] And I'm sure that will be eventually augmented by technology. Yeah. There'll be self-driving cars.

 

You can do your charting in your self-driving car as it takes you to your next appointment, at someone else's home. Just to see what technology is implemented and how it grows. But I think a lot of companies like this that are. Branching out in unorthodox areas and being bolstered by artificial intelligence and technology is just a really exciting area of medicine to be involved with.

 

I love to read science fiction. I'm a total nerd and. there's all the science fiction books are basically, in the future, oh, medicine is going to be essentially a combination of doctors using augmented by artificial intelligence. It's all remote, it's all video, it's imagined as much, much more efficient Yeah.

 

Than the way that we, currently do medicine. And I think we're on the very leading edge. Getting into that, and that's gonna be happening in the next 10 to 20

 

Speaker 1: years. Oh man. We're there. Think about the books that [00:25:00] were written two, three decades ago. Yeah. And now we're starting to realize that.

 

Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Awesome. Any closing thoughts? Anything that you wanna put out there?

 

Speaker 2: Yeah, I, no, I think we, I think we covered it all. If anyone is in. Medicine and is feeling burned out and trapped in their job and that, that, that is the one thing about being a physician is we're so highly trained in a certain area that it can seem almost impossible to be able to branch out and do something else.

 

Nurse practitioners, mid-levels, they very frequently can switch to a different area of medicine and just hop on into something else. And as a doctor, you just don't necessarily have that kind of luxury because we have such expertise in a certain area of medicine. But. Telemedicine offers an alternate route.

 

You can use the skills you trained for. But you can also use a skillset that is in a little bit [00:26:00] of a different direction, maybe in a leadership role or a business-minded role. Or you can also get into different areas of medicine that you're fully a trained and equipped as a doctor who's been in training for 11 plus years to be able to pivot to.

 

So it, it definitely offers a. A different path. And is something very much worth

 

Speaker 1: considering. Absolutely. Absolutely right. Many times, many of us as doctors, we pinhole ourselves. This is who we are, this is identity, this is how we should do things, right? And sometimes that's not necessarily the case, right?

 

you're right, we could branch out, be a different type of doctor, be an improved version of yourself, right? And again, be different roles, right? Telemedicine is just not clinical. It's just not giving out the Zack giving out the thousands of meds a day.

 

It's shaping,the new way of medicine. And I am totally stoked that, hey, you're one of the leaders now, right? And you're in the forefront. You're [00:27:00] at the tip of the spear of this telemedicine game. That's awesome. And I'm excited to see where you're headed and see your growth.

 

Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, thanks. Having me. Is there good ways to get contact? Whether you if somebody wanted to talk about telemedicine, talk about your businesses, you still have this tax business com, I'm gonna plug that check it out. Yes. If you're a 10 99 doctor and you need tax mitigation stuff, this is the guy to talk to.

 

But what's the best way to contact

 

Speaker 2: you? Yeah, my company's called 10 99 Tax Doctor, you just go to 1 0 9 9 10 99 tax doctor.com. If you wanna get in touch, there's a form you can fill out. And just information about my business and that's also a passion. like I said I love finance.

 

I was. Doing stocks back when E-Trade was like the first platform. So I'm, I'm very much into the whole tax thing. I enjoy helping physicians, especially 10 99 physicians. 'cause that's where you can do a lot of tax mitigation, oh, absolutely. Really enjoy helping [00:28:00] 10 99 physicians save on taxes.

 

Keep their hard-earned money as much of it as they can. So that's just, yeah. So 10 99 tax doctor.com, if anyone needs help with

 

Speaker 1: the taxes I'm gonna put you on the spot and I'm gonna say, Hey please come back to talk more about this. 'cause there's gonna be a lot of questions I know has, doctors transition to telemedicine.

 

We become 10 99 physicians, and I don't know if I missed that class in med school. Honestly, they didn't give that class a score. No, it is one of the most useful things to have in your toolkit, but a lot of us don't know how to do it. So anyways, that's just an aside.

 

Sorry, I had to bring

 

Speaker 2: that in. Yeah,

 

Speaker 1: love to. But thank you again so much for taking your time taking time away from your five kids and Jenna. Jenna, thank you so much for letting me borrow 'em. Thank y'all. And we will see you all in the next episode of Telemedicine Talks. All Mahalo. Great. See you

 

Speaker 2: guys later.

 

Alright, bye-Bye.