Throughout his career as a doctor, Dr. Phillip Greene has worked for several healthcare organizations in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning in 2001 with his residency. Since 2017, Dr. Phillip Jeffery Greene, MD, has worked as a collaborative physician, or a doctor who works with physicians and nurses to provide care for St. Louis areahealthcare providers.
A few years after finishing his residency in 2004, he began working with Alton Forensic Psychiatrist Hospital in 2009, serving as a primary care physician. He also served in the US Air Force Reserve in 2011. The same year, he began his first role as a collaborative physician with Take Care Health Clinics, remaining until 2022. During his time with the Reserves and Take Care Health Clinics, Phillip Greene, MD worked as a primary care physician with Clinical Medical Services in 2014.
Since 2015, Phillip Jeffery Greene, MD has been a collaborative physician and medical director with Health Plus Clinic. As a collaborative physician, he liaised between healthcare providers and administration until 2022. While at Health Plus Clinic, he also worked as a physician who provided care to patients at South City Hospital beginning in 2016.
In the latter part of his career, he has worked as a collaborative physician at St. Louis Men’s Clinic (2017) and NP Health Station (2018). Presently, he still works as a collaborative physician with NP Health Station.
What is your typical day, and how do you make it productive?
Awakening prior to 6 am; gym workout, 1.5 hours; take supplements and vitamins; arrive at clinic at 7:45 am. I see patients from 8 am to 12 noon, 30-minute lunch, resume seeing patients 12:30 to 5 pm. Once home, I talk with wife and mother-in-law, walk 2-year-old Malti-poo dog. I eat dinner with family, read, look at an evening TV program/news, and get to bed by 10 pm.
How do you bring ideas to life?
I read various medical and nonmedical journals, meet with friends, family, patients, colleagues at conferences, in clinic. Attend continuous education events, follow the TV and print news, utilize social media and internet as an encyclopedia.
What’s one trend that excites you?
Artificial intelligence and all the voids and capacities in which it will improve/enhance medicine, human well-being, and life in general.
What is one habit that helps you be productive?
Staying individually and collectively educated and growing interpersonally.
What advice would you give your younger self?
Don’t forget to socialize, entertain, and enjoy life.
Tell us something you believe that almost nobody agrees with you on.
We are on earth to experience the virtues and vices of life in a physical form, akin to roughing it on a camping trip. It is a spiritual journey to experience what can’t be derived in a perfect realm of heaven.
What is the one thing you repeatedly do and recommend everyone else do?
I do my own chores and don’t pay or ask others what I can do for myself.
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Relax, workout.
What is one strategy that has helped you grow your business or advance in your career?
Treating others with kindness, friendliness, and respect. Treat all as I would want to be treated.
What is one failure in your career, how did you overcome it, and what lessons did you take away from it?
I had difficulty understanding how to interpret EKGs coming out of medical residency. I sought out individual physicians who were knowledgeable and reviewed, over and over journals, which educated me on the matter.
What is one piece of software that helps you be productive? How do you use it?
The electronic medical record. It allows me as a physician to access, readily and with ease, a patient’s tests, labs, medications, and medical history. I can utilize that info to get a better picture of how to manage the patient and provide the proper diagnoses and better care.
What is the best $100 you recently spent? What and why?
I gave to a nonprofit organization that is doing medical research on reversing Alzheimer’s dementia. This specific disease destroys the affected’s memory to the point where the individual no longer remembers who they or anyone else is in their life. It is very difficult on the family and takes an emotional toll on the friends and family of the affected individual.
Do you have a favorite book or podcast you’ve gotten a ton of value from and why?
I enjoy the podcasts: Happy Sad Confused, The Rest Is History, The School of Greatness.
What’s a movie or series you recently enjoyed and why?
The Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time and SEC Football: Any Given Saturday.
The bureaucratic malaise on a local and federal level that slowed responses and cost lives and property. The chronic incompetency of the US Corp of Engineers with putting in and securing the proper type of levee walls was causative of the severe, costly flooding. This catastrophe could have been averted with better oversight and management. The SEC has grown into a national jewel and multibillion collegiate and noncollegiate entity and entertains millions of Americans every Saturday during college football season.
Key learnings
- Be self-sufficient and respect others and their time.
- Be positive and commit to personal growth and continuous learning.
- The more we know the better our decisions are.
- Treat life as a spiritual journey – embrace its virtues and persevere through its vices.