Matthew Mintz, MD

Internist, Medical Cannabis Expert, Practice Consultant

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Category(ies): Healthcare Management | Integrative Medicine | Internal Medicine | Physician

After 20 years as full-time faculty at The George Washington University School of Medicine, with a focus on clinical care, research, and medical education; I left to start my own Direct Primary Care practice closer to home. Having taught numerous courses, led an entire curricular revision, and started a national organization of medical educators; I remain passionate about medical education. However, in addition clinical medicine, my new focus is alternative ways of treating pain and depression as well as helping physicians break free from dysfunctional traditional insurance-based model and consider direct care. In addition to practicing traditional Internal Medicine and Primary Care, I certify patients for medical cannabis and provide ketamine and esketamine treatments for chronic pain and depression. My book “Medical Cannabis and CBD: A Physician’s Guide for Patients” is designed to explain and de-stigmatize medical cannabis for patients. In addition, having started and run several different types of practice models including concierge, executive health, international health, and direct primary care; I have the experience and insight to help doctors at any career stage to shed their burnout from traditional practice and experience the joys of practicing medicine on their own terms.

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Lecture(s)

Creating a Vision and Applying It to Build Your Practice

Matthew Mintz, MD, FACP will teach the most important step in starting: creating a vision for your practice, which can successfully guide you in making all of those decisions.

Step By Step to Starting Your Own Practice

Matthew Mintz, MD, FACP reveals how virtually any doctor can buck the system and easily set up a successful practice in today’s market and improve their income and wellbeing.

Speaking

Speaker: Matthew Mintz, MD

Dr. Mintz is a veteran speaker with expertise on a variety medical conditions (including medical cannabis and CBD), medical education, and helping physicians start their own practice.

Book(s) or Blog

Book: Medical Marijuana and CBD: A Physician’s Guide for Patients

Dr. Matthew Mintz reviews the evidence on medical cannabis and CBD, explains how it works, & gives specific recommendations on strains, formulations, and dosing for over 20 common medical conditions.

My SoMeDocs Content

Starting A Practice: Start on a Shoestring Versus Ready Out of the Gate?

Matthew Mintz, MD, discusses whether having your perfect practice from Day 1 a dream come true or a burden to growth and development.

The Most Important First Step to Stating a Private Practice: Vision

The Most Important First Step to Starting a Private Practice: Vision

Matthew Mintz, MD explains that, although doctors can be overwhelmed with the complexities of starting their own practice, having a clear practice vision as your first step can make things much easier.

Why We Need to Move On From COVID and How To Do This Safely

Matthew Mintz, MD: Despite the low risk of dying from COVID, many are still not engaging in pre-COVID activities, like seeing friends are going to restaurants. However, there are things beyond masking and vaccines that may help even the most reluctant get back to normal

Time to Talk About the “Inconvenient Truth” in Healthcare

Matthew Mintz, MD asserts that to make progress in health, we must first be able to talk about some of the core issue surrounding our failing health care system.

Should You Take Paxlovid if You Test Positive?

Matthew Mintz, MD writes about Paxlovid, and how it is a real game changer in the course of the pandemic, though it might not be right for everyone.

It’s Time to Stop Being Afraid of COVID

Matthew Mintz, MD, writes that, while COVID was once something to be feared, it is now time for those who are still hesitant to get back to normal activities.

The Gun Debate as it Relates to Private Practice and Direct Care

Matthew Mintz, MD says that inaction on gun safety demonstrates why healthcare reform will not happen in the foreseeable future; now is the time to leave our dysfunctional insurance-based system.

New Treatments for Severe Depression

Matthew Mitnz, MD, writes about how severe depression is a serious medical disease, and that pills are often not enough. Ketamine and nasal esketamine offer new hope to patients with treatment resistant depression.

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