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61 - How Dr. Spencer Nadolsky Defied The Odds to Become an In-Demand Online Doctor

The Healthpreneur Show with Yuri Elkaim

English - February 21, 2018 07:30 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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Today we’re getting into episode 61 of the Healthprenuer Podcast. Over 60 episodes, can you believe that? It seems like we started this podcast just the other day! Well, there are more to come where those 60 came from.

Today I am chatting with Dr. Spencer Nadolsky, who is a young physician—fresh out of med school—and he’s going to talk about his journey from brick-and-mortar to an online practice (with a lot of lessons learned thrown in). He is a board certified family medicine physician, but his medical doctrine is lifestyle-as-medicine—he tries to stay away from pharmaceuticals by having his patients lead healthy lifestyles. What a crazy idea, right?

The cool thing about Spencer is that he has a rabid social media following. At the moment, he has about 65,000 followers on Instagram, 25,000 followers on Facebook. And the key lesson he’s learned? It’s not about the number of followers you have, but how dedicated they are. So we’re going to dive into the marketing behind all of this and how you can work on getting a dedicated following—not just a big following—in your business.

In this episode, Spencer and I discuss: 

The medical school grind  The unfortunate realities of working at a hospital  Spencer’s lifestyle-as-medicine doctrine  Why Spencer is known as “The Doc That Lifts”  The ridiculous number of certifications required for online doctors  Why it’s okay to develop strong opinions as a physician