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      <description>Template sites cost $5k. Custom builds run $100k+. Here is the honest financial case for why elite practices are choosing bespoke, and why it is the cheapest decision they will make.</description>
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      <description>Exclusivity is not a marketing tactic. It is a mathematical necessity. Here is the logic behind our selection protocol, and why most applicants do not make it through.</description>
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      <description>AI does not count your stars, it reads what is between them. Why specialists with perfect ratings are losing patients to surgeons with fewer, more specific reviews.</description>
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      <description>The real story behind the model. Five years of building one orthopaedic surgeon digital authority, through a wipe, a wrong turn, and a comeback. This is the blueprint that became Propelled MD.</description>
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