In this candid episode of the Quantum Leadership Podcast, Dr. Stephen Sideroff welcomes Clint Carter, MD, CEO of MyMD Select in Tyler, TX, for a deeply personal conversation on physician burnout, leadership, and rebuilding healthcare around relationship, access, and whole-person care.
Dr. Carter reflects on his decade-long career in emergency medicine, the slow progression of burnout, and the moment he realized he was trading more than time for money. He describes what burnout felt like physically and emotionally, why physicians can be especially good at ignoring their own symptoms, and how support from his wife and his own doctor helped him begin a new path.
Together, they explore how that path led to MyMD Select, a direct primary care practice designed around time, trust, transparency, and personalized medicine. Dr. Carter also shares how he learned to lead while building a growing medical team, why vulnerability from the top creates safety, and how core values became the filter for hiring, decision-making, and protecting the patient-provider relationship.
Topics covered:
- What burnout can look like in high-performing professionals
- Leaving emergency medicine without having the next step fully mapped
- Building a direct primary care practice around trust and access
- Why vulnerability can strengthen leadership when the culture is safe
- Creating a values-driven team in a broken healthcare system
- Treating the root causes of health, not only the visible symptoms
Learn more about Clint Carter, MD here: LinkedIn and MyMD Select Tyler, Texas
