The Surgeon Who Left So He Could Stop Operating
Matthew Gillogly
CEO and Founderof Mavrix Profit System
7 hours ago
- The thing stopping you is permission, not evidence: Mark knew the regenerative science years before he built a practice around it. He was still talking older patients out of paying for it, deciding on their behalf that the cost was not worth it. Naming that as the decision it actually was is what changed his practice, not a new study.
- Follow the business model, not the motives: Hospitals and private equity groups hire orthopedic surgeons to operate, because that is where the money is. Anything that keeps a patient out of the OR does not get invested in. Mark is careful about this point: the surgeons around him were excellent and well intentioned. The model simply was never built to reward what he wanted to do.
- His exit came in layers, and the hard part was legal: One negotiated day a week. A sublet room inside a friend’s podiatry office. Then a former urgent care and a landlord who bet on him. Running alongside all of it was a non-compete that Pennsylvania’s new law did not apply retroactively, and Mark’s blunt read on how that goes: you do not have to be right to win, you have to have money behind you.
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