Sparks Start Fires: A Guide for Dreamers Who Are Also Doctors

Book Synopsis: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to design the medical clinic of your dreams? What if you could practice medicine the way you originally envisioned? What if we could simplify...really simplify...the delivery of routine medical care? In this quick, conversational read, family physician, Julie K Gunther, MD explains why she had to leave her job within the healthcare system to do the work she trained to do. In 2014, Dr. Gunther sold her home, her truck, moved her family, learned all about SBA loans, bought a building and opened sparkMD, an independent direct primary care (DPC) practice. Peppered with personal anecdotes, shared leanings, spreadsheets, cautionary tales, resource lists and more, this guide outlines how to start your own direct primary care (DPC) clinic in twenty clear steps. Part memoir, part business tome, this 'how to guide' illustrates how one physician left the system, went out on her own and started taking care of patients in a simplified, back-to-basics healthcare model. Inside physicians interested in going out on their own will also find: sample patient contracts, sample P&L (profit and loss) statements, sample monthly expenses, sample wholesale prescription drug pricing, sample clinic floor plans and more....