Fired 3 Times, Built a 16-Provider Practice — Dr. Maria Ingalla on Refusing to Run a Pill Mill
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She got fired three times from community mental health jobs for refusing to see patients in 15-minute pill mill rotations. The third time, in October 2020, she had a mortgage, a husband in nursing school, and zero interest in starting a private practice. She did it anyway.
Dr. Maria Ingalla is the founder of Paper Flower Psychiatry, a 16-provider, five-location neurodivergent-affirming practice in Arizona. She launched it with about $150 — a $100 website she built herself, a $20 Fiverr logo, and a Psychology Today listing. No loans. No investors. No business plan. Just a refusal to keep getting fired for having ethics.
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