Before she looked at a single feature, Dr. Sarai Ambert-Pompey timed how fast each EHR vendor answered her email. That one test eliminated most of them. One year into owning Libelula Primary Care in Boise, Idaho, she shares how to vet an EHR, what salespeople will not show you in a demo, and the three telehealth skills most physicians were never taught.

Dr. April Soto's new-patient visits for mast cell activation syndrome run up to four hours, something a fifteen-minute insurance slot could never allow. She spent three intentional years exiting corporate medicine, and now compares her pricing philosophy to the Ritz Carlton: no two-for-one specials.

In Louisiana, where every Planned Parenthood has closed, Dr. Emily Holt is opting out of Medicare, running a free Tuesday clinic for uninsured bartenders and musicians, and fighting to keep abortion medications from being reclassified as controlled substances.