The second-job problem
For: Busy attendings who think content means a second job
Three hooks, test all three
If you're a doctor and someone's told you to start posting, they've basically handed you a second job on top of the one you already have.
I'm an ER doctor with over a million followers, and I'd never tell a busy physician to start filming every day.
Doctors, you're already working fifty or sixty hours a week, so nobody should be asking you to become a video editor as well.
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Everyone who sells social media to doctors says roughly the same thing.
Post every day, learn the editing app, write your own scripts and figure out the algorithm.
That's four new jobs, and you didn't go to medical school for any of them.
So most doctors try it for a couple of weeks, get a few hundred views, feel a bit silly and quietly stop.
I still work shifts in the ER at St. Paul's in Vancouver, so I've had to make this fit around a real schedule.
The way I see it, a doctor's job is to show up, talk about what they already know, and approve what goes out.
Everything else should be built around you, not added to your week.
Next Thursday I'm running a free live training for doctors called The Physician Media Masterclass.
I'll walk you through The Objective-First Map, The Authority Interview Method and The Next-Step Engine, and how they fit together.
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Tap the button below and save your seat.
It's free, it's live on Zoom, and you can bring your questions.
Killer-ad checklist12 / 12 pass
- Hook in 3 seconds opens on the second job
- Specific callout doctors, 50 to 60 hour weeks
- Credibility ER doctor, 1M+ followers
- Unique mechanism show up, talk, approve
- Clear promise the 3 pillars, named
- Emotion felt a bit silly, quietly stopped
- Concrete outcome content built around your week
- Objection handled I don't have time
- Specificity four jobs, St. Paul's, a few hundred views
- One CTA save your seat
- Spoken cadence read aloud, contractions
- No slop zero em dashes, no hype