Meet Simoni Baid | Internal Medicine and Pediatric Doctor

We had the good fortune of connecting with Simoni Baid and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Simoni, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 8 years old. After I became a doctor, I realized, I am more of a machine for insurance documentation, prescription dispensing, and hospital growth. The patient-doctor relationship that I wished to cultivate with my profession no longer existed in this current medical system.

Burnout in the medical field is an epidemic, most primary care doctors after dedicating decades to their studies and training, hate their jobs after a couple years in practice.

I did not want that to be me. So wrote my own path. I opened a concierge style medical practice that is dedicated to cultivating a patient-doctor relationship and treating patients with a holistic approach. Not pushing pills, but using them only when needed.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I started a concierge style holistic medical practice. My practice is called AHIMSA MD (Ah-him-sa) means non-violence in Sanskrit, it is a defining tenant of Jainism, the religion I practice. I was raised to live a life as peacefully as possible without harming the world, my environment or myself. This means being a vegetarian, not hunting, not fighting, but instead bringing awareness to my body and it’s needs so I can support its growth and not hurt it with my decisions.

That is my ultimate goal for everyone of my patients. Is to teach them that their body has the ability to heal itself, they just need to learn to listen to it and provide it the right environment for its growth and regeneration. My job as their doctor is to educate them with my knowledge and support their healing journey, not to handicap them with dependence on pharmaceuticals or other medical therapies. Don’t get me wrong, pharmaceuticals are very useful, but only when we need them, not in away when we are dependent on them.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I am obsessed with Jaguar Sun a small bar and restaurant in downtown. I would take my best friend to Planta Queen for dinner and then go to Jaguar Sun for a drink. If she had a week long trip in Miami, I would take her to Key Biscayne Bill Baggs beach to watch the sunset and meditate. I would take her to the coconut grove farmer’s market on Sunday.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
My parents are Indian American immigrants and small business owners. They are the definition of the American Dream. They moved to a country where the only thing that was similar to their home was the weather (here in Miami, Florida). They left their family, their food, their friends to create a better life for their kids, one that they could be proud of.

I never understood the value of having parents that are small business owners until I decided to open up a business myself. They taught me taking a risk is ok, as long as you are ready to work really hard for it. They taught me that not knowing something doesn’t mean you do not do it, it means you learn it, you make mistakes and then you figure it out. Doctor’s are generally very risk averse people, our training almost incepts our behaviors to become more cautious since our job is so weighted. Without my parents I would have never even tried to open up my own practice.

Website: www.ahimsamd.com

Instagram: @ahimsamd.mia

Image Credits
Carina Ramos from CR Media Studio