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Our newest member is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and regenerative medicine expert with over 25 years of clinical experience and the founder of Texas Orthobiologics in Dallas. He currently serves a second term as President of the Interventional Orthobiologics Foundation (IOF), sits on the Board of Directors of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), and is Chairman of the Biologic Association (BA) for 2026–2027. In 2025, he received the Orthobiologics Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at the annual TOBI Organization meeting. A nationally and internationally recognized lecturer, he has directed a Regenerative Medicine and MSK Ultrasound Training Course (Orthosono) since 2008, training more than 1,600 clinicians in evidence-based ultrasound guided regenerative techniques. A former professional baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles organization, Dr. Buford brings a deep, firsthand understanding of his patients' desire to stay healthy, active, and performing at their best.
His work can be found at https://t.co/4SRCgZy6SL, and he'll be joining us for the filming of "The Allures & Myths of Sports Medicine"
His tagline?
Orthopedic surgeon and regenerative medicine expert guiding orthobiologics through research, education, and national leadership — @texasorthobio https://t.co/LxgMLfqMXD via @SoMeDocs
Here's how short clips of familiar songs are helping healthcare professionals turn everyday clinical moments into relatable, high-impact content. https://t.co/3AExZMKD60
Efficiency matters in content because attention is short, audiences scroll quickly, and a message that would take a paragraph to explain can be delivered in a few seconds if the right cultural reference is used. — article written by The SoMeDocs Team https://t.co/nl1bxI8Y66 via @somedocs
Our newest member is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an Assistant Adjunct Clinical Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
He is the Fellowship Director and DIO for an ACGME-accredited sports medicine fellowship. He earned his Bachelor's degree in chemistry and biochemistry from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He then went on to earn his Master's in Science in Physiology and Doctorate in Medicine from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Plancher completed his residency at Harvard University's Combined Orthopaedic program. He then went on to complete two post-graduate fellowships, one in hand and microvascular surgery (The Indiana Hand Center) and the other in sports medicine and reconstruction of the shoulder and knee (The Steadman Hawkins Clinic).
Most recently, he completed his MPH at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He previously served on the AAOS Board of Directors with his appointment in March 2022 as Past BOS Chair and is the Past President of the Eastern Orthopaedic Association.
He joins SoMeDocs in our upcoming series, The Allures & Myths of Sports Medicine - coming soon.
https://t.co/doKbZ0cHFk
Meet our newest member, a board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and founder of Visionary Medicine, a Los Angeles-based practice specializing in integrative and metabolic psychiatry. She also works as a therapist and physician in psychedelic clinical research and has served on studies involving psilocybin and esketamine.
Her tagline?
Metabolic and holistic psychiatrist helping creative, ambitious people feel and function at their highest capacity. https://t.co/e2pzUCaLz7 via @SoMeDocs
Many professionals spend years trying to improve their visibility.
A more important question often comes later:
Why should anyone remember you?
Todays published article, written by Dr. Dana Corriel, MD - @drcorriel - explores what she calls the Difference Factor: the quality, perspective, experience, story, style, or obsession that makes your work feel distinct.
Because, she writes, competence alone rarely creates loyalty.
People are surrounded by smart, credentialed, experienced professionals. The voices that stand out tend to bring something else to the conversation: a recognizable lens, a memorable perspective, or a way of explaining the world that feels uniquely their own.
Your difference may already be hiding in the questions people ask you repeatedly, the compliments you dismiss, or the topics that continue pulling your attention back.
People follow what they can recognize.
They trust what feels useful.
They remember what has a signature.
Read the full article in our magazine. A link will be posted below, too. Don’t leave before subscribing to our site’s weekly digest to get a weekly dose of great reads and watches (and listens)..
Most people think writing a book is about inspiration.
Published authors know it also requires endurance.
In this session, physician-author Wendy Johnson MD MPH shares the lessons she learned while building a writing career alongside a full-time career in medicine.
From finding ideas and developing your craft to navigating rejection, revision, and the long road to publication, this talk explores what it actually takes to get a book across the finish line.
Whether you’re writing memoir, fiction, narrative nonfiction, self-help, poetry, or simply dreaming about the book you’ve always wanted to write, you’ll walk away with practical strategies for building the skills, support system, and resilience that every writer needs.
A manuscript grows one page at a time.
A writing career grows the same way.
This formal lecture is part of our writer’s course (the 3rd annual!), which you can catch for free while it’s live, on June 5 at 3 PM ET. Or, purchase a VIP ticket for access to all of the lectures within this course. Still in pre-course discount pricing! Course details will be linked below.
Healthcare professionals carry extraordinary stories, emotions, and experiences.
Expressive writing offers a structured way to explore them.
In this session, author and educator Áine Greaney Ellrott shares how to create and lead an expressive writing program designed to support healthcare professionals, colleagues, and communities.
The formal lecture explores the research behind expressive writing, practical considerations for creating welcoming spaces, and the tools needed to build workshops that foster reflection, connection, and emotional safety.
Participants will learn how to assess interest, design meaningful workshops, create environments where people feel comfortable sharing, and apply established best practices from leaders in the field.
For clinicians, educators, wellness leaders, and employee-development professionals, this session provides a practical roadmap for bringing expressive writing into healthcare settings.
Sometimes a blank page becomes the place where important experiences finally find language.
It takes place live tomorrow, June 3, at 12:30 PM ET and is free while live. If you miss it, you can purchase access to all recordings in this writers course - our 3rd annual - and learn from all of the lectures in this series. We’ll link the course below.
FORMAL LECTURE TONIGHT
3rd Annual Private Practice Course
Most physicians have been taught to evaluate patients. Far fewer have been taught how to evaluate their practice.
After more than 300 conversations with physicians through My DPC Story, Dr. Maryal Concepcion, MD FAAFP has noticed a pattern:
Practices that thrive tend to share certain structural characteristics.
Practices that struggle often share those too.
In this formal session, she introduces a practical framework for identifying the hidden pressure points that make a practice feel harder than it should.
Staffing.Patient panel design. Decision bottlenecks. Operational friction. Financial sustainability.
This is not about understanding where the strain is coming from and making targeted changes that create a healthier, more sustainable way to work.
A valuable session for any physician building, growing, or questioning the sustainability of their practice.
It’s part of our 3rd annual course on private practice, open to anyone who wants to learn - easily, quickly, affordable. In fact, the live session is free. If you can’t make it live, you can purchase a VIP ticket to access record recordings of all talks for 6 full months. We’ll link the lectures page on our site below.
Don’t forget, we’re also waiting on at least 50 members interested in opening up a private practice room in our WhatsApp community. We’ll place the link below, too.
As millions face the possibility of losing ACA marketplace coverage, Dr. Natalie Gentile's cash-pay MRI example exposes the wild pricing gaps patients encounter when they navigate healthcare without insurance. https://t.co/qOfcx0l0YB
From the article: One instituion wanted $2400 for an MRI. At another, the same MRI was $766. Same city. Same test. A financial gap wide enough to swallow a household budget. https://t.co/qOfcx0l0YB via @somedocs
A $766 MRI and a $2,400 MRI sitting in the same city should make every patient, physician, and policymaker ask who gets to see the cheaper door first. — article written by The SoMeDocs Team https://t.co/qOfcx0l0YB via @somedocs
Dr. Devina Wadhwa writes about how how clinicians adapt to hospital noise over time, while for most other people, the first thing they notice is that very same noise. https://t.co/cLJ9hU44lm