{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Root Cause - Business of Medicine Podcast","title":"Episode 25: Pushed In, Pulled Out — Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj on Leaving Interventional Cardiology, Betting on Himself, and the HEART Framework","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4547,"description":"Erik has known this week's guest for more than a decade — they started a cardiology program at the same Riverside County hospital, reconnected at a Metagenics clinic in Orange County, and watched each other leave the system.\nDr. Sanjay Bhojraj is a board-certified interventional cardiologist and one of the few cardiologists in the country certified by the Institute for Functional Medicine, where he now teaches. He is the founder of Well12 and the Integrative Heart Institute, hosts The Curious Cardiologist podcast, and writes on heart health for CNBC.\nHe was pushed into medicine — an Indian kid in small-town Indiana whose parents were both family doctors, with job offers waiting before he'd chosen a specialty. He was pulled out of it by a Saturday on call with eight back-to-back heart attacks, two friends his age who had their own, and the realization that at fifty he was a few years from being the patient. \"It's not work-life balance,\" he says. \"It's life-work balance.\"\nIn this episode\nGrowing up in his parents' practice, where patients sometimes paid in tomatoes — and what that taught him about the doctor-patient relationship\nThe jagged line: why every career outside medicine expects pivots, and why medicine sets the next forty years on day one\nMed school at $8,000 a year, and how that freedom shaped every decision after\nThe frog in the water: four more clicks on top of four hundred, e-prescribing security keys, and turning over your own exam rooms\n\"We know you're going to stay\" — how a physician's commitment to patients gets used against them\nThe dog in the open crate: doctors who don't realize they can leave\nFive percent of a physician's horsepower is more business acumen than most entrepreneurs have — the missing piece is tolerance for failure\nReoPro, a bailout drug, and the meeting where administrators asked for 30% less of it\nWhy every hospital CEO should have practiced for ten years, and why physicians should be paid to sit in the meetings they currently...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RDUSeE44PXw6C0vroYb_a-tROTMjDYFL7tE1bj-xPjc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZDU2/ZDYwYTUyOTJkZDE3/ZTYwZjk4NzgzNzBj/OWQ4Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}