Shveta Gupta is a practicing physician and physician executive. She is medical director of the Comprehensive Hem/Gyn Clinic for Young Women with Blood Disorders at Alliance Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she practices at the intersection of hematology, women's health, and rare disease. More about her work is available on her website.
She runs a physician-led health tech advisory practice using the Triple-Lens Framework (clinical, evidence, payer) to help digital health companies build products that physicians adopt, regulators clear, and payers reimburse. She founded VEDAIC, a training platform that structures physician expertise into consulting-grade health tech advisory. She also serves as president of the Central Florida Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
Shveta writes about the second apprenticeship, the translation work that begins when clinical training no longer explains you. She publishes The Second Apprenticeship on Substack and The Pragmatic Physician on LinkedIn, and she shares updates on LinkedIn. Her book is forthcoming in 2027.
At 6:14 on a Monday morning, I open the electronic medical record (EMR) before I open the lights. The clinic does not open for two hours.
The ambient scribe ran on every encounter last week. Most notes are clean. Some need edits I will read between patients. The scribe captures the conversation. The clinical impression is still mine.
Beside the queue, the prior authorization dashboard shows eight denials from last week. Two …
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Physician moral injury is not burnout, it is accuracy
At 6:41 on a Tuesday morning, a physician sits in the hospital parking garage after a long shift and reads an email on her phone three times. “We would love to understand how your clinical background translates to this role.” She has been a physician for twenty years. She has taken care of septic children at 2 a.m. She has told families their child won’t make it. She has built …
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Leaving medicine is a translation problem, not a loss
