How one Kansas doctor left the health care rat race behind for a different model

By: Mark McCormick

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: February 4, 2026

Words: 996

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Increasingly, physicians have found work with corporations while losing their medical autonomy and often, so much more. Such a circumstance nearly 12 years ago nearly drove Harish Ponnuru out of the profession.

“We’re told we have to see more and more people every day, and no matter how many times I met the metrics or got a bonus or etc., just like being in an abusive relationship, it was never enough,” Ponnuru said.

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