RedBud Matters

I wanted to show you RedBud Surgery Center and tell you why I am fighting so hard to protect it. When I walk into RedBud Surgery Center, I feel what I felt as a kid walking into my dad’s small medical office in Augusta, GA. The sense that when you made it to his door, you were safe, and you were cared for. That same spirit lives here. Having my own surgery center is a superpower. It means I don’t have to beg a hospital for time in the OR or let an insurance policy dictate how I care for my patients. Here, I get to welcome women facing breast cancer into a space designed just for them. My team is trained to care deeply, and where I can pour everything I’ve learned in over a decade of practice into doing what’s right. No quotas. No seven-minute visits. No penalties for putting patients first. Just the freedom to deliver the care they truly deserve. But places like RedBud aren’t easy to keep alive. We’re pushing against corporatization and the financialization of medicine. RedBud matters because it represents what healthcare should be: doctors and patients coming together in a space built on purpose, not profit. To the medical students and young doctors: don’t give away your soul to systems that value money over patients. Believe in yourself, build spaces that allow you to live your purpose, and take care of others with integrity. I’m fighting for RedBud so you’ll have models like this to carry forward. RedBud matters. And with your support, we can prove this way of practicing medicine isn’t the exception, it’s the future.