Dr. Christina Doll spent 30 consecutive weeks of pregnancy on continuous IV fluids from a backpack, then got the lockdown alert in the parking lot after her six week postpartum checkup. She won a $10,000 Amber Grant, built her logo in Canva, and opened Revival Direct Primary Care in September 2021. Days later Hurricane Ida flooded the office. She switched to home visits and lost nobody.

Dr. Niran Al-Agba still dictates into a tape recorder and files paper charts in the Silverdale, Washington practice her father opened in 1971. She carries roughly 3,000 patients, documents a visit in about one minute, and works around 20 hours a week. She also gave Medicaid 24 hours to reverse a rate cut, and it did.

Dr. Becky Lynn opened Evora Women's Health in February 2020, one month before the pandemic, and brought home nothing at all the first year. She priced the practice on the higher side, then gave one Tuesday a month away on a pay what you can basis so she would not have to abandon the patients who could not follow her.