Dr. Pearce McCarty, orthopedic surgeon for Allina Health and co-founder, DOCSI, on entrepreneurial inspiration

Off the Record

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Allina Health orthopedic surgeon Dr. L. Pearce McCarty III won’t settle for doing things halfway. When, as a team physician for the Minnesota Twins, he needed a certain type of medical implant he couldn’t get in the operating room, he created it himself. The next step was to figure out how to commercialize it, he says in the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast.

When others told him he could learn to build a business “on the fly,” he made it clear that “that’s not the way I work,” McCarty says. “So I went to Duke and got my MBA.”

Now, as an entrepreneur, renowned surgeon and co-founder of health care IT company DOCSI, McCarty puts his education to good use.

Listen to his conversation with Dave Faust, president and CEO of Platinum Bank, and Jen Hellman, CEO of Goff Public, in this episode to hear about his career journey. Learn more about:

• Of the several universities he attended, which college sweatshirt McCarty likes to wear the most (5:05)
• Wrangling a jackhammer that weighed almost as much as him in a high school job (10:59)
• How McCarty decided what medical specialty was his calling (20:26)
• Learning entrepreneurial lessons from his father (22:16)
• Inspiration for building DOCSI (26:01)
• What it was like to be a physician for the Minnesota Twins (37:04)
• McCarty’s favorite thing to cook for dinner (43:59)

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