The Doctor Nessim Show

The Doctor Nessim Show is an interview podcast about the business of being a doctor, hosted by a physician who is still in residency. Dr. Nessim is training in physical medicine and rehabilitation. He also says, more than once, that he is interested in opening his own private practice. That interest sets the agenda. The guest list reads like the contacts someone planning a practice would want: a dermatologist who recently opened a practice, a financial planner, a health tech founder, and a consultant the host first connected with on X. The conversations get specific. Dr. Nader Aboul-Fettouh describes taking a space with eight rooms while needing only three or four, which leaves room to bring in another physician, a PA, an NP or an esthetician. The stated goal is a practice where people want to work, and where a request for better patient care is not met with penny-pinching. Eric Miller co-owns a national financial planning company that serves healthcare owners. He names staff pay as the biggest expense and argues that owners cannot hand off leadership entirely, because they need executive skills of their own. Dr. Mario Amaro, a Navy veteran and the founder of EASE, lays out how startups form a Delaware C Corp and a separate managed group, keeping clinicians outside the main entity to avoid the corporate practice of medicine. Heath Villaman recalls an early consulting job with an animal protein producer and makes a pointed claim about brokers: because they are paid a percentage of the spend, they have little reason to steer a company toward a doctor who would save it money. Dr. Bo Gu, introduced as a former cardiothoracic surgeon and emergency physician turned entrepreneur, takes the widest view. Asked whether the pendulum might swing back toward independent physicians, Dr. Gu ties physicians' finances to that question and criticises the corporatization of medicine, especially on the payer side. One episode steps away from business. Dr. Jay Bowen is medical director of the New Jersey Regenerative Institute and board-certified in the same specialty as the host's residency. Dr. Bowen recounts training in prolotherapy in Honduras and in ozone in Germany before PRP came along, and describes a review with other physiatrists in which the Achilles tendon did best and the patellar tendon did worst. A common thread runs through the set. Introducing one guest, the host notes that physicians are not always trained in business, and another conversation ends on the point that business knowledge is now a necessity rather than an extra. The host keeps things warm and informal, asks open questions and lets guests talk at length. Near the end of one episode he speaks directly to med students and employed physicians who might someday start a practice. Several guests close by saying how to reach them, whether by direct message on X or through a company website. What a listener gets is first-hand detail from people who have made the move the host is considering, or who advise the doctors who make it.