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Do You Need an MBA to Start a Direct Primary Care Practice? A Physician Founder Explains What Actually Helps You Build a Business - Part 1
What if the work that grows your practice fastest is the work you do before you ever run an ad? Dr. Therese Canares is a pediatric emergency physician at Johns Hopkins and the founder of CurieDX, software that predicts strep throat from a photo with about 95% accuracy. She also has an MBA, and she is refreshingly blunt about how little of what she needed came from it.
Her first invention was a device that could detect ear infections from a picture of the eardrum.
The science worked. The business did not, because the parts cost $5,000 and the rule of thumb meant selling it for $50,000. She…
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