Ali Chaudhary M.D.

CEO @ Locum Physicians United | #1 Authority in Locum Tenens | Founder of LocumOS | Author of The Locum Revolution | Board-Certified Emergency Physician

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

I left my hospital job to become a full-time locum physician.

Best decision of my medical career.

$500K annually, 40-hour weeks, zero department meetings.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Many of you may not know this, but I literally wrote the book on locums.

"The Locum Revolution." It's the whole system. From zero to first shift.

From first shift to a schedule you built yourself. From that schedule to a life you actually chose.

I've sold it. Gifted signed copies to physicians who've done real work with this material. But I've never given it to an entire room.

Until Sunday.

I'm doing an online workshop this Sunday at 7p EST.

FREE.

How to Start Locums in 30 days.

Everyone who attends the workshop and stays to the end gets a copy.

Free.

What's in it: how to find sites, how to negotiate your rate, how to set up your business structure, how to design a schedule that fits your life. Not theory.

Frameworks I've used across 2,000 shifts and 12 years of doing this.
It's the shortcut.

(First time I've done this at a workshop. Not sure I'll do it again.)

Register here:

https://t.co/E4wRBNlmKq

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Your medical school debt accumulates interest regardless of your happiness.

But your obligation to yourself for a fulfilling career matters too.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

A surprising benefit of locums:
You start respecting your own time again.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Docpreneur = doctor + ownership.
Ownership of schedule.
Ownership of rates.
Ownership of direction.

You don’t have to build a startup to become one.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

If you’re scared to ask for more, ask anyway.
They’ve been underpaying you for years.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Residency teaches you how to survive.
Locums teaches you how to live.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

If you’re torn between two paths, pick the harder one.

Leaving your job? Hard.
Learning contracts? Hard.
Running your own schedule? Hard.

But if the easy path was right,
you wouldn’t still be thinking about leaving.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

I didn’t have a perfect plan when I left.

I just had enough pain to make staying worse than the fear of leaving.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

I didn’t go locums for the money.

I went because I forgot what it felt like to wake up and want to practice medicine.

Now I remember.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

You don’t need to uproot your life to try locums.
Keep your W-2.
Test the waters.

One shift is all it takes to see the difference.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

20 years from now, you'll think:

"I wish I'd tried locum practice earlier."

or

"Transitioning to locums was my best career decision."

Choose your future regret.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

If the thought of taking a month off feels impossible,
that’s exactly why locums exists.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

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[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Doctors deserve flexibility without feeling guilty about it.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Residency training teaches compliance and hierarchy adherence.

Locum practice teaches autonomy and professional independence.

Unlearning institutional conditioning requires effort.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Traditional path:
Residency → job → ladder → fatigue.

Docpreneur path:
Residency → skills → leverage → options.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Imagine if every doctor graduated with two degrees:
MD + basic business literacy.

The MD keeps you employable.
The business literacy keeps you free.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

A physician with optionality is a different person:
Calmer
Happier
More present
Better doctor

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

Doctors talk a lot about delayed gratification.
But no one explains what to do once you’ve delayed long enough.

Locums is often the first real “win” doctors feel in years.

[Ali Chaudhary M.D. @therealtopdoc]

The first time you customize your schedule,
you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.