Starting your first attending job means more than just showing up on day one. It means building an entire practice from the ground up.

In this episode of Cut & Tell, I take you behind the scenes of what it actually takes to launch a career as a plastic surgeon, from spending nearly $10,000 in a single day on essential equipment to building my website, planning patient workflows, setting up my office, and figuring out how to create a practice that reflects my values.

We talk about:

• The expensive equipment every plastic surgeon needs (and what's actually worth buying)

• Why I invested in a professional camera system and surgical headlight

• Building my surgeon website and optimizing it for SEO

• Creating a patient experience from the very first visit

• Marketing yourself as a new attending physician

• Preparing for board certification and practice ownership

• The transition from residency to real-world practice

Whether you're a medical student, resident, early-career physician, or just curious about what happens after surgical training, this episode offers an honest look at one of the biggest transitions in a surgeon's career.

Subscribe for more conversations about medicine, surgery, physician life, and building a career beyond residency.

Host: Liz Malphrus, MD

Connect with Liz: https://www.hippocratic-collective.com/members/liz-malphrus-md

IG: @dr.malphrus

Produced By: The Hippocratic Collective

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