Dr. Megan Melo · The Physician Whisperer
I help physicians build the thing they keep not starting.
The practice with your name on it. The business you keep sketching. Or just a Tuesday that belongs to you. I listen the way only another physician can.
Who this is for
- You might be opening your own practice, and the clinical part is the part you're least worried about.
- You might already be out, building something that doesn't yet pay you what it should.
- You might be staying exactly where you are, and no longer agreeing that your life belongs to your job. You're building your life without leaving it.
- You might not have named it yet. You just know you're not doing another decade of this.
All of that is the same work. And underneath all of it, the same question. Is this the life I actually want, or the one I was supposed to want?
This isn't for you if you want someone to hand you the plan. I'm going to ask you what you actually want, and that question is harder than it sounds.
The part nobody is helping you with.
The patients loved you. You were the one who stayed, who took one more, who never let anything drop. The system was never satisfied, and you kept going anyway, because that is what you were trained to do.
Head down. Unboundaried.
It worked, and it cost you.
Nobody ever taught you to trust your own read on your own practice.
So now there's something you keep circling. Maybe you've said it out loud as a maybe. Maybe you haven't said it at all, because you can hear how it would sound, and you already know who would have opinions about it.
And when you do go looking for help, what you find is a checklist for opening a practice. Useful, eventually. Not the thing that's actually stopping you.
You want to give better care than you're able to give right now. You also need the math to work. You've probably noticed that almost nobody talks about both of those at the same time.
What I actually do
In medicine we send patients to each other. When my patient needs something I'm not trained in, I want to know where to send her, so I don't have to say no to something I know would help.
There's no referral pathway for a physician who's stuck. Or leaving. Or opening something and terrified of it.
That's what I do.
You probably already have somewhere to go for the tactics. A mastermind, a course, a consultant, a friend who's done it before. Good. Keep them.
What I hold is the human piece in the middle. What you actually value. What you want your days to feel like, on a Tuesday, not in a five year plan.
We'll talk about money, and pace, and the thing you keep not doing. The rate you won't raise. The contract you never went back to. Same problem, different setting.
What your care is worth and how you spend a Tuesday are the same conversation as what you value. Most people will only ever help you with the first half of that.
I listen the way only another physician can.
You come out the CEO of your own life, whether you stay or step out on your own.
From other physicians
“She has a calming and methodical approach to helping you confront problems in your business. She’s not afraid to challenge you, but never from a place of judgment, always from a place of love.”
Dr. Rebecca Berens · Family Medicine, Houston TX
“She has a real gift and a real heart for serving women physicians in private practice.”
Dr. Jeannie Lawrence · Physician
What actually happens on the call.
You book. You’ll get one question ahead of time, about what’s bringing you here. Answer it badly if that’s what’s honest. “I don’t know, something’s off” is a real answer, and I’ve heard it plenty.
Then we talk. 20 minutes, just the two of us.
You might ramble. You might spend the first ten minutes explaining why it isn’t the right time, or why other people have it worse. That’s normal. It’s usually where the real thing is hiding.
My job is to listen for what’s rattling around in there, and to help you say it out loud. Often for the first time.
Nothing leaves the call. You don’t need a plan, and you don’t need to have decided anything. You just need the thing you keep not saying.
“I have been feeling trapped. Part of it is that I feel like I have no other choices. I was coaching with Megan, and then I recognized that I do have a choice. Knowing that I have a choice, I don’t feel so trapped.”
Dr. Anupama Mohanram · Nephrology and Lifestyle MedicineSupposed to be available. Supposed to take one more. Supposed to be grateful. Supposed to believe that being needed is the same as being valuable.
Putting that down is the work. Here’s what it costs.
The One
$500
One 60 minute session, complete in itself. Nothing to sign up for.
“She has a way of really saying things that hit home. It brings such clarity and centers you.”
Dr. Cindy Ojevwe · Family Physician
The Other Side
$2,500
Six 50 minute sessions across twelve weeks. We go after the supposed to, and what you actually want underneath it.
“She brought to light things I was afraid to admit to myself, afraid to say out loud.”
Dr. Brittany Panico · Rheumatologist
Most people start with the free call. That’s where we work out which of these you actually need, or whether you need either.
Who I am
I’m Dr. Megan Melo. Family and Obesity Medicine, certified by The Menopause Society. Mom to a teenager and a tween. Wife. Recovering perfectionist.
I spent years trying to fix myself with self-help books, passive courses and therapy. Therapy I would recommend to any physician. All of it helped. None of it had me setting a boundary and keeping it, or making a career decision that actually fit me. Coaching did that.
I left employed practice and built my practice and my brand inside someone else’s small private practice, as a contractor. Then the coaching business, and a podcast, to support physicians the way I had wanted to be supported. I know what it is to build something of your own without burning down what you already have.
A lot of my patients are physicians. They come to me for their own care.
I listen the way only another physician can.
Podcast
Ending Physician Overwhelm
If you’re not ready to book anything, start here. New episode every Tuesday, free, and it’s the same conversation in a form you can listen to in the car.
ListenYou don’t have to know what you want yet. That’s the call.
Twenty minutes, free, nothing to buy.
