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Doctors Making A Difference

Peter M. Crane, MD

Not every doctor dreams of climbing the traditional ladder. Some dream of building their own. Doctors Making a Difference, hosted by Dr. Peter Crane, tells the stories we rarely hear, of physicians who dared to ask, “Is this all there is?” and then changed their lives to answer it. These are the moments after burnout, after bureaucracy, after sacrifice. When purpose called louder than protocol. Each week, listeners meet doctors who stepped off the expected path—into roles as entrepreneurs,

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00:36:31

DMD #66 | Real Estate Investing for Physicians &...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2026/01/15

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.—-----Jonathan Spitz, Head of Capital Formation at Lightstone Direct, joins Dr. Peter Crane to discuss

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00:43:48

DMD #65 | Medical Education, Student Loans &...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2026/01/08

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.—--Dr. Suzanne Allen is a family physician and Vice Dean for Academic, Rural and Regional Affairs at

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00:28:30

DMD #64 | New Year Reflection: Why Being a Healer...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2026/01/01

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–This special New Year’s solo episode is both a thank-you and a reckoning.After thousands of downloads

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00:40:43

DMD #63 | Infertility, Identity & Finding Alignment...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/12/26

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–Dr. Erica Bove is double board-certified in OB-GYN and Reproductive Endocrinology — but her most

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00:40:06

DMD #62 | Surviving the Breaking Point: Leadership,...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/12/18

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–Dr. Scott Ellner is a trauma surgeon, author, and healthcare leader who has lived on both sides of

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00:41:05

DMD #61 | Direct Primary Care: Fixing Healthcare by...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/12/11

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–Dr. Josh Umbehr is a board-certified family physician who took an unconventional path—opening a Direct

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00:40:09

DMD #60 | Chronic Illness, Misdiagnosis & the Truth...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/12/04

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–When Dr. Susan Marra graduated from naturopathic school, she expected to treat the usual mix of

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00:38:39

DMD #59 | The $500B Problem Nobody Told Doctors About...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/11/27

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–When a psychologist told Dr. Kumar Ramlall that his son ranked “third worst out of 1,000,” he refused

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00:40:39

LMC #58 | Joel Horowitz & Dr. Gina D’Amato on Hope,...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/11/20

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–When New York entrepreneur Joel Horowitz was diagnosed with solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) in 2018, he

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00:36:44

LMC #57 | Dr. Edmond Ghosn on Lessons from Surviving...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/11/13

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–When headaches and dizziness sent Dr. Edmond Ghosn to the ER, he never imagined he’d wake up from

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00:35:57

DMD #56 | Dr. Nanette Nuessle— Reclaiming Joy and...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/11/06

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone DIRECT. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–Dr. Nanette Nuessle’s medical journey began with trauma and resilience—surviving severe burns as a

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00:41:23

LMC #55 | Matthew Zachary — Redefining Cancer...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/10/30

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone Direct LLC. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–As a 21-year-old music prodigy and film student, Matthew Zachary was given six months to live

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00:39:05

DMD #54 | Dr. Rob Beck: From Burnout to Balance — A...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/10/23

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone Direct LLC. Lightstone DIRECT invites you to partner with a $12B AUM real estate institution as you grow your portfolio. Access the same single-asset multifamily and industrial deals Lightstone pursues with its own capital – Lightstone co-invests a minimum of 20% in each deal alongside individual investors like you. You’re an institution. Time to invest like one.–When the pandemic hit, Dr. Rob Beck was already running on empty.An internist from Tennessee, Rob

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LMC #53 | Gwen Orilio: How a High School Teacher...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/10/16

This episode is sponsored by Lightstone Direct LLC. Lightstone Direct LLC connects you to institutional-quality real estate investments backed by a $12-billion AUM firm that co-invests alongside you—your partner in building lasting wealth. All investments involve risk. Please visit LightstoneDirect.com for a full list of disclosures.---When Gwen Orilio was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at 34—just 18 months after her daughter was born—she was told she might not live long enough to see her child

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00:37:39

DMD #52 | Dr. Shannon Dowler – A Family Doctor’s...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/10/09

When Dr. Shannon Dowler says she dives into life “feet first,” she means it. A North Carolina native with deep Appalachian roots, Shannon has spent 25 years serving her community as a family physician, educator, and advocate.In this episode, she shares her unconventional path—from cleaning cages at a veterinary clinic as a teen to leading Medicaid reform for an entire state. She reflects on the realities of rural medicine, where power outages can last for weeks, neighbors show up with pickup trucks

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00:34:40

LMC #51 | Dr. J. Louis Hinshaw on Tumor Ablation,...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/10/02

In this physician-to-physician conversation, Dr. Hinshaw traces two decades of progress in interventional oncology—from early radiofrequency ablation to modern microwave ablation and the dawn of histotripsy. He explains why indolent, chronic cancers (like many solitary fibrous tumors and neuroendocrine tumors) are especially well-suited to repeatable, organ-sparing treatments that preserve quality of life, and how multi-disciplinary care guides the “right tool for the right lesion” approach. He also

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00:33:59

DMD #50 | Dr. Chris Hills on Orthopedics, Service,...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/09/25

Dr. Chris Hills has taken an unconventional path in medicine. From medical school in Arizona to an Army scholarship and deployments overseas, his career in orthopedics was forged on the battlefield and refined in fellowship at Duke. Now settled in Jackson, Wyoming, he combines spine surgery with a love of the outdoors.Chris reflects on lessons from military medicine, the importance of balance in sustaining a career, and why professional detours often lead to the deepest growth. He also shares his

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LMC #49 | Dr. Gina D’Amato on Solitary Fibrous Tumor:...

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/09/18

SFT is rare—~17,000 sarcomas/year vs. ~300,000 breast cancers—and SFT is only a small slice of that number. Dr. D’Amato traces her path into sarcoma, the unmet need that drew her from lymphoma research, and the mentorship network that helped her build programs at Moffitt, Emory, and now Sylvester.We talk about modeling SFT in the lab (cell lines and engineered mouse models), why NAB2-STAT6 matters, promising signals (e.g., HDAC inhibition) being vetted before a first-in-disease trial, and the new

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00:39:42

DMD #48 | Education, Equity & Women’s Health: Dr....

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/09/11

Dr. Marleen Temmerman always wanted to make sure “people around the world had the same chances.” That vision carried her from early roadblocks (“But you’re a woman…”) to residency, then to Nairobi in the 1980s as HIV emerged. She helped stand up maternal–newborn research and services in high-volume public hospitals, founded NGOs advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, and later served two terms in Belgium’s senate and as a department lead at the WHO.Now based in Kenya, she’s focused on

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DMD #47 | Reinvention, Joy, and Coaching: Dr....

Doctors Making A Difference ·

2025/09/04

Dr. Chrissie Ott has lived more than one medical life: nearly a decade in primary care, another in hospital medicine, and now medical director of a skilled nursing facility serving medically complex children and young adults—while moonlighting as a newborn hospitalist.In this episode, Chrissie unpacks the moment of awareness that changed everything: realizing that the “dream” solo practice she built no longer sparked joy. She explains the practical (and emotional) steps of closing a micro practice,

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