The same problems, wearing different costumes.

I'm a primary-care physician who left the exam room to help build the companies trying to fix healthcare, and spent the next fifteen years learning exactly where they get stuck.

Employee #3 at Iora Health, where I designed the clinical model, built the software, saw patients, ran markets, and led technology across a decade that ended with an acquisition by Amazon. Chief Product Officer at Cricket Health through a fundraise and exit to Fresenius. Operating Partner at SCAN, running advisory across a portfolio of incubated startups. Harvard Medical School faculty for ten years. Somewhere in there, people started offering to pay me for my advice, so I stopped pretending that wasn't the job.

A thousand conversations later, I keep seeing the same problems wearing different costumes — clinical and product talking past each other, clinician leaders promoted past their preparation, organizations that set goals and miss them for the same structural reasons, companies that hit product-market fit and immediately catch fire. The fixes work more often than they should. Schutzworks is where I do that work alongside the founders, operators, and investors still in it — through advisory, the Schutzblog, and Schutzduck, an AI advisor I built so the next hundred companies could get the conversation without waiting on my calendar.