Dr. Vince Leone argues that doctors working without a formal coach operate in isolation, missing guidance that could save years of trial-and-error. Peer conversations alone lack the depth of mentorship from someone who has already navigated a medical career's challenges.
Because what happens is, what I've experienced and what doctors tell me is like, you know, when you don't have a coach, you kind of you're kind of on an island, right? You're you know you're running the ship. You are kind of trying to figure it out all on your own. You don't really have any sounding boards. You don't have a support community. Maybe you have a buddy or two that you're colleagues with, but it doesn't. It's not really the same when it's when it's. Not structured, and, and, uh, it's certainly not the same if they're not significantly further ahead of you in practice. You know, if you're just bouncing ideas off someone that's at the same level at you in practice, or maybe a little ahead or a little below, it just— I mean, who knows what their opinion is? I mean, maybe they're right, but most likely they're wrong. Uh, what you really want is advice from someone that's been there and done that at a much higher level so that they look back, oh yeah, yeah, that's easy, you just do this. And you follow that, right? And you save years, if not decades, of your life in that process.
