Built by a doctor,
for doctors.

I worked the public ED for years. Long weekends, the kind where you eat dinner standing up at 2am and walk out feeling like you'd done something that mattered. On Saturdays I'd pick up a locum shift somewhere regional. Two hundred kilometres out of town, for the rate and the change of scenery. The work I loved. The way I got there I didn't.

Every booking went through an agency. Late-night phone calls. Rates that shifted depending on who asked first. Forms emailed at 11pm asking for indemnity certificates I'd already uploaded six times. The hospital and I both wanted the same thing. The agency wanted a cut.

Seven months after a one-off locum shift at a regional hospital, the team asked me to stay on. We both wanted it. They wanted continuity of care. I wanted to belong somewhere again.

The agency that had originally placed me, who had not been part of any of the seven months in between, sent a lawyer's letter demanding a buy-out fee. Twenty-five percent of my first-year salary. Three months of pay. For making the introduction once, half a year earlier.

I ignored the letter. I kept working. So the agency went after the hospital instead. The hospital paid the buy-out fee just to make it stop. That was the moment I saw the problem clearly, and decided to do something about it.

StatDoctor started as a spreadsheet and a question: what if a hospital could post a shift at a fair rate, and a doctor could accept it directly, in two taps, with their credentials already verified? No phone calls. No agency cut. No lock-in.

In January 2025 we launched in Victoria with a handful of rural locum doctors and the hospitals that needed them most. Portland District Health was the first to post. A doctor accepted that same evening.

Word spread. Today a team of three (me, Seif, and Prahlad) partners with 47 hospitals across Australia, from Hobart to Tom Price. We've saved them over $200,000 in fees that used to go to people who never set foot in the building. The marketplace I wished existed when I was the doctor on the phone is the one I now run.