Dr. Feneisha Franklin left her corporate medicine job on a Friday and took ownership of a Direct Primary Care practice on a Monday. Here is the financial and legal checklist she wishes she had before buying someone else's clinic.

At 3am, mid-shift, Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew got a message from her supervisor: 'You're okay with it. So it's never going to change.' She used retirement savings to open a solo Direct Primary Care practice capped at under 130 patients.

Dr. Lisa Lucas left insurance-based medicine after struggling to get her own mother meaningful care through MS and breast cancer. She shares how she funded the leap, designed Fulcrum Family Health in Maine around trust, and why she works on wraparound insurance plans rather than against them.