It will be decades until society swings away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and a high price will be paid in the interim.
There’s a lot medical groups can learn from the service aspects of other industries. Take Carlitos Cafe Y Cantina restaurant on State Street in Santa Barbara, California for instance. The food is great — great enough to have attracted my business on a very regular basis for the past 7 years. But over the past […]
Your group’s only as strong as the foundation upon which it rests.
I counsel my clients to develop broad, deep and wide relationships with the facilities they serve. But what if your group serves only one facility? Consider a group that is more successful than most in developing that strong relationship and in providing what I call an Experience Monopoly™ to the facility, to the referring physicians […]
The bus hurtles down the road, picking up speed, faster and faster, quickly passing one, then another, and then yet another large yellow sign warning that a sharp curve lies ahead, speed limit 15. But no one’s touching the brakes and, in fact, none of the passengers on the bus is driving. Then, 20 or 30 […]
Physician groups can profit from their compliance efforts.
As the societal trend swings even harder toward the communal and the cooperative, it’s more important than ever that medical groups understand that maintaining their relationships with hospitals requires breadth, depth, and length. This means involvement in a wide range of hospital and medical staff issues, leadership, not just participation, and commitment to a long […]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Japan’s 100 year old Sharp Corp. announced that it had doubts that it could remain as a going concern. Sharp had invested heavily in building liquid crystal display manufacturing plants in order to compete with its South Korean rivals, only to have the market collapse. Sharp’s president was quoted as […]
Having all group members buy in to the same cause is a winning strategy.
In terms of thinking about the future, are practicing physicians really different from residents? I recently gave the opening lecture in my series for residents. The first topic: The trends affecting the future of their practice. Some in the audience paid close attention. Others didn’t. An even smaller number came up afterwards to ask in […]
