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About Garrett

Garrett Soames is a medical provider and policy advocate focused on creating a healthcare system that delivers better outcomes at a fairer cost.

MEET GARRETT SOAMES

A Medical provider. Entrepreneur. Author. Advocate for Healthcare Reform.

After years of watching patients, families, providers, and communities struggle with the rising cost and growing complexity of healthcare, Garrett began documenting the structural problems that keep meaningful reform out of reach.

Flatlined: How Profit Broke American Healthcare brings those insights together in a direct, readable case for action and playbook.

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THE STORY BEHIND FLATLINED

Built on experience. Written for change.

After two decades on the front lines of American healthcare, including emergency care, COVID-19 response, and experience abroad, Garrett Soames saw the human cost of a system failing its patients, wrote Flatlined as a roadmap for change, and founded Patients Before Profit to educate Americans and catalyze a movement for meaningful healthcare reform.

A DEFINING PERSPECTIVE

Two healthcare systems. One lifelong commitment.

Early in his medical career, Garrett worked in Malawi, Africa, within one of the world’s most resource-limited healthcare systems. Despite having far fewer resources than the United States, he witnessed extraordinary compassion, ingenuity, and patient-centered care. Most strikingly, if someone could get themselves to the hospital, they received all the care that was available—treatment wasn’t withheld simply because they couldn’t afford it. Returning home to practice at Emory University Hospital gave him a rare perspective on the striking differences between healthcare systems. The contrast challenged many of his assumptions about access, resources, and the role of money in medicine, helping shape his commitment to improving American healthcare.

“Better healthcare is not defined by resources alone. It is defined by how effectively those resources are used to serve people.”

BEYOND MEDICINE

A life grounded in family, learning, and service.

When Garrett is not practicing medicine, writing, speaking, or developing healthcare initiatives, he enjoys spending time with his two daughters.
He also continues his studies, participates in strength training, and explores innovative ways to improve healthcare through education, technology, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
His personal and professional experiences continue to shape one central belief: America can build a better healthcare system when people are equipped and inspired to demand it.

EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE HEALTHCARE CONTINUUM

A career spanning medicine, business, and leadership.

Emergency Medicine

Front-line experience in high-pressure clinical environments.

Primary Care

Long-term patient relationships and preventive care.

Sports Medicine

Performance, recovery, and musculoskeletal care.

Hormone Optimization

Personalized treatment and patient education.

Weight Management

Evidence-informed metabolic health programs.

Hospice Care

Compassionate support for patients and families.

Pediatrics

Care shaped around children and their families.

Healthcare Leadership

Clinical operations, strategy, and organizational growth.

LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC

Courage, sacrifice, and a system under pressure.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Garrett worked alongside physicians, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and countless other healthcare professionals who endured extraordinary physical and emotional demands while caring for critically ill patients.
Those experiences strengthened his conviction that America’s healthcare system too often places financial incentives ahead of the patients and professionals it exists to serve.
They also reinforced his belief that meaningful reform requires more than criticism. It requires education, public engagement, cooperation, and practical solutions.

Medical Provider

Grounded in the realities faced by patients and frontline professionals.

Policy Advocate

Focused on realistic reforms that improve access, cost, and accountability.

Public Educator

Translating complex healthcare challenges into language people can act on.

A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Empowering people to advocate for compassionate, accessible, and sustainable care.

Garrett’s goal is not simply to identify what is broken. His goal is to empower people to advocate for a healthcare system that is compassionate, accessible, affordable, effective, and sustainable.
He believes meaningful change will require participation from patients, providers, business leaders, policymakers, and citizens across the country.

Healthcare reform should belong to the people whose lives depend on it.

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