When the White Coat Comes Off: Reinventing Purpose After Medicine, Cancer, and Career Shock
Podcast: Business Insider: Round Table PodcastPublished On: Wed Jan 28 2026
Description: What happens when a career you’ve spent decades building gets pulled away faster than you can process it—email shut off, access gone, identity shaken—and then life hits you again with a health crisis?In this Business Insider Roundtable episode, Lisa Begley sits down with Mark Perloe, MD, a retired reproductive endocrinologist who spent 34 years helping people build families through IVF. Mark shares the unexpected forces that pushed him into reinvention: industry consolidation, private equity pressure, the pandemic, and a cancer diagnosis that changed how he sees time, purpose, and what really matters.You’ll also hear the heartfelt story behind Milo’s Superpower, his children’s book inspired by his grandson—and how Mark’s “next chapter” became less about achievement and more about impact, advocacy, and creating memories that last.
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