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Leaving the ER for DPC: How Dr. Chelsea Johnson Built Kidz MD to Keep Kids Out of the Hospital
This is a transparent, real‑world coaching session with Dr. Chelsea Johnson, founder of Kidz MD Pediatric DPC in Liberty, Missouri. After years in academic medicine, ER/urgent care, and consulting, she decided the only way she’d practice primary care was inside DPC. She calls it her “off‑ramp” to keep kids out of the ER and stay in medicine on her terms.
We walk through the unsexy but critical pieces of launching a pediatric DPC: solving the vaccine purchasing maze, marketing on a tight budget, and building operations that don’t collapse the minute you open. You’ll hear how she targets her…
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