Healthcare’s Leadership Trap: Why Promoting Great Clinicians Can Break Clinics

The Operator | Healthcare Business · May 13, 2026 · 24m · transcript

Everybody in healthcare says they want better leaders.

But Larry Benz argues the problem may not be a leadership shortage. It may be a leadership selection problem.

In this episode of The Operator, Larry breaks down why healthcare platforms keep rewarding people who can speak the language of EBITDA, scale, synergy, and productivity — while undervaluing the clinicians who actually hold the clinic together.

The most expensive mistake? Taking the best clinician in the room — the mentor, the culture carrier, the trusted presence — and promoting them out of the clinic.

Title goes up.

Meetings go…