Reading 998 books eventually turns into writing a few. These are mine — on starting companies as a physician, on what makes outliers, and on leading yourself first.
The book I wish someone had handed me before I started NextCare. A practical, scar-tissue-honest guide for physicians who want to build something beyond the exam room — from idea and incorporation to raising money, hiring, and scaling, without losing your license or your mind along the way.
What separates the people who consistently outperform — in medicine, business, sport, anything? After decades of watching outliers up close, I distilled the recurring traits: voracious reading, deliberate discomfort, grit, humility, and a few habits anyone can borrow. This started the entire Outlier Series.
The Outlier playbook, rebuilt for students and twenty-somethings: how to stack skills early, find mentors, fail cheaply, and build the habits that compound for decades. Narrated on Audible by my daughter Kaleigh, which makes it my favorite recording of the series.
Before you lead a team, a company, or a trauma bay, you have to lead yourself. LeadershipYOU is about exactly that: self-command under pressure, communicating when stakes are high, and earning trust before you need it. Drawn from the ER, the cockpit, and the boardroom.
The Outlier lens turned on my own profession — physicians who refused the conventional path and changed medicine because of it. Book ten in the series, and the one closest to home.
Much of what I learned building and running urgent care centers, assembled with more than thirty contributors into the reference I wish had existed when I opened my first clinic — real estate and staffing through coding, compliance, and day-to-day operations.
Profiles of women who changed their fields — the same Outlier traits, told through the people who embody them.
A close-up profile in the Outlier Series — one game-changer's path, and the ingredients behind it.