How to BUILD a MEDICAL Practice AND Delivering BABIES During COVID | with Dr. David Ellman
Practice ownership and growthSummary for practice owners
This long-form conversation with Boca Raton OB-GYN David Ellman combines a career story with reflections on building a medical practice and maintaining a human connection in care. For practice owners, its value is less a turn-key operating manual than a perspective on how a physician's professional identity, business environment alongside relationships with patients can shape the organization. Ellman traces his route into obstetrics and gynecology, including how exposure to the specialty during training helped him settle on the work. He also describes moving into practice and the influence of a family background in medicine. The conversation broadens into how the business of medicine has changed across generations and how a practice can remain attentive to people while handling those changes. Empathy, respect alongside presence recur as leadership qualities. In practical terms, those themes matter to owners because patients and staff experience a practice through everyday interactions, communication alongside the reliability of its culture, not only through its clinical systems. The hosts also discuss the demands of serving families through a disruptive period, including the challenge of creating a reassuring environment when people are anxious. The interview presents this as a leadership and communication challenge, not a checklist of clinical instructions. Owners can take away the importance of communicating calmly, respecting differing perspectives alongside recognizing the emotional context in which patients and teams work. The episode is conversational and autobiographical, so listeners should treat it as one physician's experience instead of a universal operating model. Its broader prompt is to build a practice whose business decisions support continuity, trust alongside respectful interactions across the team and community.
Owner takeaways
- 0:32 Use the practice story to connect business building with the day-to-day experience of patients and families.
- 10:53 Consider how changes in the business of medicine affect the owner's operating context.
- 23:20 Treat empathy and respect as leadership behaviors that shape the practice culture.
- 32:45 Communicate with care when patients and staff are handling uncertainty.
Why it made the list
It made the list for an owner-relevant perspective on practice building, leadership alongside the patient-facing culture of an OB-GYN office. The video has 30 views and 1 like.
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