Every venture that eventually looks like a real company started as something smaller and less certain, worked on around a full clinical schedule, not instead of it. The point where a side project needs real structure isn't when it starts generating interest, it's when the informal way you've been running it (a shared document, a few conversations, no clear ownership) starts actively slowing it down.
Time management for a practicing physician building something on the side is less about finding more hours and more about protecting a small, consistent block of them. The ideas that actually become something tend to get worked on in the same few hours each week, not in occasional bursts of enthusiasm that fade.
Written by John M. Abrahams, MD — board-certified neurosurgeon, founder of New York Brain & Spine Surgery.
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