Empowering Doctors to Lead Healthcare Change

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Shapiro, a board-certified cardiologist and nationally recognized physician advocate who helped launch one of the first agencies designed specifically to represent doctors. We talk about the mission behind MD Envoy, a new model inspired by sports representation that gives physicians support beyond the bedside. Our conversation covers physician burnout, mental health, and why many doctors struggle with the business and personal demands of their careers. Dr. Shapiro also shares how strategic representation, stronger physician voices, and modern platforms can improve healthcare outcomes while helping doctors build sustainable careers and make a broader impact across communities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs to Playbook. I'm David Bouser live at Radio Robe for the 31st year.
0:05.8	Man, I'm getting old, but I've never been short of extraordinary guests. And somehow when it
0:11.1	comes to the Super Rolling Radio Robe, all of my guests lead to one person, my mentor, Lee Steinberg.
0:17.4	All roads lead to Steinberg. No doubt Dr. Scott Shapiro, his road has led to Lee
0:23.2	Steinberg as well. Welcome to the Playbook. Oh, thanks for having me. Well, you have created the first
0:28.6	physician's agency in the world and you have kicked the best partner in the world. The man
0:34.5	created sports agency. Lee Steinberg, most people know, but they based an I earlier to attest to it.
0:41.1	They based the movie Jerry Maguire about Lee.
0:44.5	One of the lessons that Lee taught me was about the backdrop of schools.
0:49.4	And, you know, being a lawyer going law school, business school,
0:53.3	Lee hired me as CEO of the most
0:55.6	notable sports agency in the world, not because I was a great lawyer, not because that is a great
1:00.0	agent, but because I had to have sworn in background in venture capital and technology. And way back
1:06.9	when in the early 2000s, Lee said to me, the future of sports was in venture capital
1:11.4	and technology. And so when I saw that he had created with you and Mike was up, the first
1:17.8	physicians agency, as you're an orthopedic surgeon, if I'm not incorrect. Dr. Sock, Mike Sok,
1:24.0	internationally renowned orthopedic surgeon. I'm a cardiologist. Yeah. More important. So cardiologists, you are more important, believe orthoped surgeon. I'm a cardiologist. Yeah.
1:29.0	More important.
1:32.7	So cardiologists, if you are more important, believe it or not, even in my profession,
1:33.5	and I'll tell you why.
1:39.0	The whole premise of my life is to face it off the beginning experience, which I've simplified to the time the heart sparks until the time it stops.
1:43.0	And so my entire, in the executive coaching that I do
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