Ride along with Mark as he counsels you on telling yourself the truth about your current practice situation and finances, and suggests ways to break out of being a sacrificial animal for someone else’s benefit.
Tag: entrepreneurial
Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you?
Practicing physicians are for the most part, captives of their training. They’ve been taught that taking risks is dangerous.
Creating value in the context of a professional service involves delivering both an exceptional service and an exceptional experience. The mindset of an entrepreneur is tuned to deliver accordingly.
A recent trip to a restaurant and the post office illustrate the difference between entrepreneurial medicine and the brave new bureaucratic world of healthcare.
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 […]
Be honest: 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 […]
Highly successful medical groups operate in concert with bureaucratic hospitals but avoid the taint of bureaucracy themselves.