Sep 1, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Dr. Steve Vargo sits down with Dr. Allan Panzer, OD, a Houston optometrist with 47 years in practice and owner of the Houston Dry Eye Clinic, for a wide-ranging conversation about the…
Allan PanzerGuest
Steve VargoHost
You and I spoke last week, and on our call, you said, You said something that most doctors won't admit out loud.
I've had a front row seat to the doctors that don't embrace financial growth in the practice.
And I've seen the impact it has not just on the success of the business, but you see that the business suffer, but patient care can suffer as well.
You know, I really think that there are too few people who are optometrists trying to be business people versus business people trying to be optometrists.
I know that sounds formal, doesn't it? I'm a business person who simply found a vocation that I could make a wonderful living at and enjoy myself.
I think I'm a great optometrist, but I'm a business person first because you won't have an optometry practice if you're not a business person first.
And so that's my embrace is how can I make a great living and enjoy what I'm doing? I've been doing it for 47 years now.
I was talking to one of my classmates last night and they asked, how many of us do you think are left? And I said, I bet there's fewer than 10 of us from the class.
got into this profession and really loved the clinical care side of it, but really don't like the business side of it.
You and I spoke last week, and on our call, you said, You said something that most doctors won't admit out loud.
I've had a front row seat to the doctors that don't embrace financial growth in the practice.
And I've seen the impact it has not just on the success of the business, but you see that the business suffer, but patient care can suffer as well.
You know, I really think that there are too few people who are optometrists trying to be business people versus business people trying to be optometrists.
I know that sounds formal, doesn't it? I'm a business person who simply found a vocation that I could make a wonderful living at and enjoy myself.
I think I'm a great optometrist, but I'm a business person first because you won't have an optometry practice if you're not a business person first.
And so that's my embrace is how can I make a great living and enjoy what I'm doing? I've been doing it for 47 years now.
I was talking to one of my classmates last night and they asked, how many of us do you think are left? And I said, I bet there's fewer than 10 of us from the class.
got into this profession and really loved the clinical care side of it, but really don't like the business side of it.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
