Choosing the Right Telemedicine Specialists for Health-Focused Lifestyles

Your practice isn’t chasing volume; you’re building a brand around real results: patients who reverse biomarkers, crush their PRs, and actually follow protocols because they trust you. To keep growing that reputation in 2025 and beyond, you need telemedicine specialists who aren’t just licensed bodies in seats. You need obsessed, high-output clinicians who speak the language of continuous glucose monitors, peptide stacks, and VO2 max. Here’s how to find, vet, and lock in the ones who will triple your patient outcomes and make your waitlist explode.

Know Exactly Who You’re Hunting For

Stop posting generic “telemedicine physician wanted” ads when you are hiring telemedicine practitioners. Be brutally specific. Are you looking for an IFM-certified functional medicine doctor who listens to Huberman podcasts or a former Division 1 athlete turned endocrinologist who can discuss TRT dosing with 25-year-old tech bros and 55-year-old CEOs in the same breath? Write the job post like your ideal patient’s dream doctor bio. The right people will self-select in, and the resume-spammers will bounce off.

Screen for Proof, Not Promises

Credentials are table stakes MD/DO, board-certified, clean license. Now go deeper. Ask for:

• Recent personal bloodwork or DEXA scans (yes, really if they optimize patients but not themselves, pass)
• Links to podcasts, YouTube breakdowns, or Instagram reels where they teach (if they can’t explain SHBG suppression to a 100k-follower audience, they’ll struggle with your Type-A patients)
• Case studies: “Show me a patient who dropped ApoB 40% in six months” or “Fixed Hashimoto’s without going full AIP.” The best candidates get excited by these requests, while the average ones lack enthusiasm.

Test Their Patient Communication Live

Top telemedicine talent treats visits like high-end coaching calls, not insurance billing checkboxes. In the final interview, role-play a real patient:

• 38-year-old founder with 9% body fat but fasting insulin 18
• 45-year-old mom who “feels fine” but has TSH 4.8 and zero libido. Watch if they ask about Zone 2 minutes, sleep latency, or seed oil intake without prompting. Do they send a post-call voice note recap? Do they request Levels CGM data before prescribing metformin? That’s your unicorn.

Look for Systems Thinkers Who Scale

You don’t need another doc who disappears after the visit. You need someone who:

• Writes detailed, beautiful follow-up summaries that patients actually read
• Uses asynchronous messaging like a weapon (answers labs in <12 hours)
• Builds Notion-style protocols your health coaches can execute
• Loves looping in your RD, trainer, and therapist without ego. Ask: “How many active patients do you manage right now with 85%+ retention?” Anyone under 150 with that retention is either not ready for your model or is lying.

Offer What the Corporate Gigs Can’t

The best talent is burned out on 35-patient days for $240k. Beat the big telehealth factories by offering:

• Revenue share or % of collections
• Full autonomy on labs/protocols (no corporate formulary BS)
• Equity or profit share if you’re building something big
• Unlimited CME budget for A4M, IFM, or Seeds Scientific
• Remote-first but paid trips to your in-person retreats or masterminds. Top producers will take a “lower” base for upside and freedom every time.

Hire average and you stay average. Hire one obsessed, patient-obsessed telemedicine specialist who gets results your current docs can’t touch, and suddenly your practice is the one people fly across the country to join. Patients talk. Waitlists grow. Revenue compounds. Do the uncomfortable vetting now, demand the blood work, grill them on senolytics, and make them prove they walk the walk. When you land that rare clinician who’s as dialed-in as your best patients, you don’t just fill a role. You level up the entire practice. Start the search today; your future seven-figure brand (and your patients’ biomarkers) are waiting.