She Was Working 20 Hours a Day. Here's What She Built Instead.

About this episode

Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew shares her journey from working long hours in fee-for-service medicine to founding her own micropractice.

She was working 20 hours a day in fee-for-service medicine, and her supervisor was online at 3am too, totally unbothered. That's when Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew knew nothing was ever going to change. So she changed everything. Dr. Leventis-Shew is the founder of Victory Family Medicine in Columbia, SC, a physician-only micropractice she built intentionally, organically, and on her own terms. In this episode she gets radically honest about the financial decisions that shaped her DPC journey: u...

People in this episode

Host: Maryal Concepcion, MD

Guest: Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew

Topics covered

• direct primary care
• micropractice
• physician entrepreneurship
• financial decisions
• work-life balance

Keywords

• DPC
• Victory Family Medicine
• physician-only practice
• healthcare entrepreneurship
• financial decisions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Victory Family Medicine

Places: Columbia, SC

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