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Why Make It So Easy for Your Competitors? – Medical Group Minute
I left several messages in the afternoon to see if my car was ready. No one returned my call.
How to Avoid a Black Friday for Your Medical Group
Many medical groups with large numbers (large being relative) of employed or subcontracted physicians have put themselves in the same sort of bind in respect of their workforce.
They’ve created an annual event out of the renewal of employment contracts and subcontracts by legislating a set renewal date.
The Real Term of a Contract Might Surprise You – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he navigates the issue of the true term of any contract.
Why Make It So Easy for Your Competitors?
Yesterday morning, I took my car to the dealer for service. I left several messages in the afternoon to see if the car was ready. No one returned my call. Every day, your group’s physicians treat patients. I’ll assume, as do your patients, the referral sources who send you work, and the hospitals at which…
What’s a Medical Group Really Worth? – Medical Group Minute
A question that sooner or later will be asked.
Entrepreneurial Practice vs. Bureaucratic Existence – Podcast
A recent trip to a restaurant and the post office illustrate the difference between entrepreneurial medicine and the brave new bureaucratic world of healthcare.
Entrepreneurial Practice vs. Bureaucratic Existence
You couldn’t ask for a better analogy to illustrate the difference between entrepreneurial practice and the bureaucratic world of one size fits all medicine envisioned by many pundits as the preferable world of the future. Dinner at the family-type chain restaurant, Rock Fish. Pleasant but not fancy, yet clean and decorated nicely. We were greeted…
Seriously Underwhelmed
I don’t know about you, but when I eat at a sushi bar, I expect the sushi chef to take my order. After all, for me, that’s the expected, traditional experience. And, it’s what makes it fun. You order based on what looks fresh, on what the chef suggests, and depending on your appetite –…
Do You Own Your Practice or Does it Own You?
Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you? If your practice owns you, what you have is a job. You might as well go work for someone else. Less headache. Isn’t that the whole point of physician management companies and hospital employment? But if you want to become successful, and there…