Episode Details

Starting your first attending job means more than just showing up on day one. It means building an entire practice from the ground up.

In this episode of Cut & Tell, I take you behind the scenes of what it actually takes to launch a career as a plastic surgeon, from spending nearly $10,000 in a single day on essential equipment to building my website, planning patient workflows, setting up my office, and figuring out how to create a practice that reflects my values.

We talk about:

• The expensive equipment every plastic surgeon needs (and what's actually worth buying)

• Why I invested in a professional camera system and surgical headlight

• Building my surgeon website and optimizing it for SEO

• Creating a patient experience from the very first visit

• Marketing yourself as a new attending physician

• Preparing for board certification and practice ownership

• The transition from residency to real-world practice

Whether you're a medical student, resident, early-career physician, or just curious about what happens after surgical training, this episode offers an honest look at one of the biggest transitions in a surgeon's career.

Subscribe for more conversations about medicine, surgery, physician life, and building a career beyond residency.

Host: Liz Malphrus, MD

Connect with Liz: https://www.hippocratic-collective.com/members/liz-malphrus-md

IG: @dr.malphrus

Produced By: The Hippocratic Collective

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