The Autonomous Physician

On July 1st, 2024, Dr. Oren Fass walked away from private equity with a medical license, a non-compete clause, and nothing else. No office. No staff. No phone number. Within thirty days he had a formed entity, a signed lease, active insurance enrollment, and a Medicare application in motion. Within six months he was operating. Today he runs Denton Eye Consultants as a solo cataract practice with zero employees.
The back office is automated, the faxes route themselves, and the surgical scheduling runs on AI. He had done it before. In 2011 he built a solo practice from scratch, grew it to four offices, hired four physicians, and sold the whole thing to private equity at seven figures. This book is the story of both builds and the month-by-month blueprint for yours. Inside this book:Ten chapters tracing both practices from Day 1 through a fully running operation.
AI-to-AI guides at the end of every chapter - paste them into any LLM and let the machine walk you through each step. Human How-To appendices with official primary sources, clickable links, and background references. The complete 13-item insurance stack every solo physician needs. A credentialing, legal, and financial checklist that would have saved the author six months if it had existed when he started.
The automation playbook: fax routing, surgical scheduling, phone trees, and the tools that make zero-staff possible. Each chapter has a video summary, plus an invite to the Autonomous Physician medical community where we share innovations that allow us to run our own practices staff-free. This is not a textbook and not a business school case study. It is one physician's honest account of starting over twice, written so that the next physician who decides to take the leap has a map instead of a blank page."Ownership is the only place to safely stand in this new world that arrived while most of us were lumbering along just trying to complete our daily tasks."