Regaining momentum. Do you remember back to undergrad when you first learned about physics? In particular, do you remember the basic Newtonian principle that a body in motion tends to remain in motion and a body at rest tends to remain at rest?
When patients say “No, Doctor”. This is always a big question in medicine, getting patients to follow advice.
To establish and maintain a healthy private practice it has to be you patients see in print, but in this day and age social media and Google.
Learning to meet patients ‘where they are’ in life some days is more challenging than making an accurate diagnosis.
The Most Powerful Marketing Secret Ever? Read on and see if you identify.
We’re sharing some additional new year’s resolutions that can help to make your private practice be the most successful it’s ever been.
Every year most of us create a New Year’s Checklist…We vow to lose weight…Promise to take up a new hobby…Plan to spend more time with loved ones…But how many of us make resolutions to do something proactive to build our private practice?
Before the start of the new year is often the best time to reflect, and then look forward. After all, it’s kind of like Spring, where we get “New Chances”.
The most important revelation with regard running a practice and indeed our lives in an efficient and happy manner, really comes from Michael Gerber. I call it life’s sanity mantra.
Unacceptable. How did we ever let healthcare in the USA get this bad?
Have you recently had a staff meeting dedicated just to handling of Patient Finances only? Are you as the CEO sure you and your staff communicates the clear value of care with each patient?
In private practices especially you can tell so much about a doc and their practice, based just upon how staff answers the phone. Now of course, this is something you should check regularly and do with kindness.
Are poor staffing issues killing your private practice? Quite possibly. Here’s what to do about it.
Life is a checkerboard and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time.
Right now, more than ever, it is time to take a real hard look at the foundations upon which you have built your practice, and your future
What’s in Your Library? What’s in Your Head? How about Harry Truman’s Way.
What about an MBA for physicians? Lets face it; most of us do not have MBAs. Yet modern practice demands a plethora of these business skills sets.
I spent four years in the Midwest, but admittedly it’s been some time. I had forgotten how common courtesy seems to permeate the entire culture of the Midwest, in stark contrast to those of the Northeast.
You and I cannot control what’s going on in the outside environment, but we can control what’s going on between our own two ears.
Because of the world we now live and practice in It just takes guts to say what you believe is best for a patient, on so many levels.