The business of medicine, explained by a physician who built it.
Practical, plain-English guides to contracts, compensation, billing, practice ownership, procedure facilities and personal finances — the parts of medicine that training leaves out.
Written byDr. Irfan Siddiqui, D.O.Interventional cardiologist
Who it’s for
Written for physicians at the points where business decisions matter most. Every guide ends with key takeaways, a “questions to ask” checklist and its public sources.
Fellows and residents
Finishing training and facing a first contract, a productivity formula and a stack of loans.
Practicing physicians
Employed or independent, and wanting to understand how their work is valued, coded and paid.
Start withRVU-Based Compensation Explained
Practice owners
Weighing a new location, a procedure suite, a building purchase or a change in how billing is run.
Start withStarting or Buying a Private Practice
Written by Dr. Irfan Siddiqui, D.O., FACC, FSCAI
An interventional cardiologist who has built practices and outpatient facilities, and who wrote these guides from that experience.
- Interventional cardiologist with more than 25 years in medicine
- Board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology; FACC, FSCAI
- Founder of the Private Insurance Operating Cardiac Model and the Time Share Cardiac Suite Concept, both used nationally
- Founder of the Doctor Lease Back program for physicians
- Named a Top Doctor for multiple years; associate professor for local medical and nursing schools
- Author of The Dark Side of Medicine (Impact Publishing, 2022)