![]() We also moved away from a traditional individual owner model into a corporate model where everything was under one united brand. Together, we raised enough capital to open four sites (Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Columbus Circle and Flatiron).Īs this urban model was completely new, we had no playbook going in, but we knew what NOT to do from Richard’s 5 years of experience. Personally, I was over half a million in debt and could have lost everything had this not gone the right way. We had no outside investors during this financial crisis, so each partner had to come up with significant amount of cash for this to work. In total, there were ten of us who got together and to found the company between 2010-2011. Richard was thinking about opening an new type of urgent care in the city, and at the time, urgent care was traditionally seen as only doable in suburbs. Richard Park (now the CEO and founder of CityMD) who was my colleague and mentor at LIJ ER to get some advice from him since he had an urgent care practice in Long Island. While risky, the idea of starting an urgent care became popular as I saw some of my colleagues depart the ER to create their own practice. The environment and climate became toxic, and I began searching for a better way and a better life. While it was a stable job, it also affected my physical and mental well being given the dysfunctional overcrowding of hospital ERs. I was the overnight doctor working alone in the Emergency Departments for over 7 years. This was also when I realized that life is as you make it, and when I heard I was accepted into a residency on match day, I cried out of joy for the first time.Ĭan you tell us the story of how you founded CityMD? Medicine now had a meaning, and became forever a part of my life. From these days, I learned a lot about compassion and humanity, witnessed pain and suffering and recognized that life is short and unfair. This was the experience that shaped and solidified my aspiration to be in the medical field. It’s hard to explain the feeling when you are working to save a life, and a team of selfless, motivated and hardworking nurses are by your side as you hold the urinal for drunk patients, clean diapers, transport the deceased and wipe blood off the floor. ![]() Till this day, I credit my medical career to nurses who trained and taught me in the beginning. ER nurses are probably the best group of people I’ve worked with. To my surprise, a few months in, the ER charge nurse offered me a paying job as a nursing assistant as I was the only volunteer who actually did their hours. Interestingly, most other volunteers didn’t actually show up for work, and rather just got their volunteer credits signed off on. I remember being disappointed when I didn’t get in, and as a backup I decided to volunteer at the local ER every week to get that experience. ![]() If I had strayed from this path, I actually would not have become an ER doctor and thus would not have met my CityMD partners.Īt SUNY Binghamton, there was a prestigious EMS club that a lot of folks applied for. But it’s funny how life works, because this was my fated path. This happened again when I found out I was going to SUNY Binghamton instead of Cornell, again when I got into SUNY Downstate instead of NYU Med School, and yet again in emergency medicine residency when I got into Long Island Jewish Medical Center instead of Jacobi Hospital. My life has had a recurring theme of second place. It’s funny looking back now, but I was disappointed when I told my dad I only got into Bronx Science because I was aiming for Stuyvesant. Despite being a horrible student in Taiwan, with my parents’ support I was able to catch up quickly in the US and achieve high grades in school. I come from a family of farmers and merchants but my parents were the only two that graduated from college in their family and became journalists. I was born in Taiwan and grew up in Taipei until the age of 7 when my family immigrated to Flushing. I’m also currently theĬEO/founder of a medical education company called Master Clinicians, an advisorĪnd investor for several startups, and proud member of the Mets Fantasy Camp Physician at Northwell’s Huntington Hospital. Prior to CityMD, I worked as a Board Certified Emergency Medicine David Shih, co-founder, former Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Strategy at CityMD to learn more about the company’s rapid growth and his experiences leading up to CityMD.Ĭo-founder of CityMD and former Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Strategy atĬityMD. ![]() ![]() In 8 years, CityMD has grown from one Manhattan practice to more than 100 total locations while treating over 5 million patients. Founded in 2010 by a passionate group of emergency medicine physicians, CityMD is the leading urgent care provider in the New York metropolitan area. ![]()
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