Noah Kaufman, MD

Expert Witness | Founder & CEO KaufCare PLLC | American Ninja Warrior |

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Category(ies): Emergency Medicine | Physician

20+ year board certified ER physician. 10+ year experienced expert witness. Founder and CEO of KaufCare (dot com) and pushing hard to innovate, build, and reinvent medicine so that it once again serves patients, not profit interests. 7 time American Ninja Warrior. Rock Climber. Motorcycles. Burning Man. Guitar. Cooking.

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Physicians need to stop being complicit in a system that harms patients.

Noah Kaufman, MD

Physicians need to stop being complicit in a system that harms patients.

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He Wasn’t a Doctor Yet. Then Someone Needed One.

Before Noah Kaufman became an ER doctor, he was a medical student being asked to act like one—from a dislocated shoulder in Mexico to a seizure in a movie theater.

1,000 Feet Up, His Hand Slipped

ER physician and former American Ninja Warrior Noah Kaufman recalls free soloing Yosemite’s Royal Arches as a medical student.. and the moment his hand slipped more than 1,000 feet up.

The Night I Lied to a Surgeon to Save a Patient’s Life

Dr. Noah Kaufman recalls the night a dislocated shoulder became a life-threatening emergency, forcing him to lie to a surgeon to save his patient.

I Was One Month From Finishing Residency. Then I Quit.

Dr. Noah Kaufman recounts the brutal side of medical training, a confrontation with a surgeon, and the day he nearly quit medicine one month before finishing residency.

Gunshots, Ninja Warrior & One Very Strange Night in the ER

Noah Kaufman, MD, shares a wild ER night involving an unforgettable foreign-body case, a gunshot trauma, and a surreal American Ninja Warrior recognition.

The Independent ER Doctor: Rethinking Where Acute Care Happens

Emergency physician Dr. Noah Kaufman shares why he left traditional ER medicine to build a direct-pay acute care practice—and what physicians should know before going independent.

The Biggest “I Don’t Know” in Medicine

Dr. Noah Kaufman shares what it was really like practicing emergency medicine during COVID, when fear, death, uncertainty, and medicine collided.

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