From Physician to Founder: How Dr. Shikha Joshi Built Her Own Healthcare Model - EP 131

If you’ve ever left a doctor’s appointment feeling rushed, dismissed, or unheard, you’re not alone.

In this episode, Nicholle sits down with Dr. Shikha Joshi, an internal medicine physician and founder of Bloom Direct Primary Care, to talk about the structural issues within modern healthcare and why she chose to leave the traditional insurance-based system.

After over a decade practicing medicine, Dr. Joshi saw firsthand how limited appointment times, administrative demands, and insurance structures prevent doctors from delivering the kind of care they were trained to provide.

So she built a different model.

This conversation explores the rise of Direct Primary Care, why evidence-based medicine is critical in an era of viral health misinformation, and what it really takes to leave a stable career to build something new.

Dr. Joshi also shares the personal health diagnosis that reshaped how she thinks about prevention, lifestyle, and patient care.

Topics we discuss include:

• Why the traditional healthcare system frustrates both doctors and patients

• What Direct Primary Care is and why it’s growing

• Why social media health advice can be misleading

• The difference between trends and evidence-based medicine

• The leap from physician to entrepreneur

• Health habits that actually improve long-term wellbeing

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Dr. Shikha Joshi

Bloom Direct Primary Care https://www.bloomdirectpc.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Bloom-Direct-Primary-Care-Shikha-Joshi-MD/61583881385029/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shikhajoshimd/

Threads https://www.threads.com/@bloomdirectpc