When Steve Jobs left earth, perhaps the greatest technological visionary of our times, maybe even in modern history passed. His impact has been profound. But why? Simply, he created his own realities, and thus has shaped yours too! Steve Jobs relentlessly pursued Star Trek like visions, and then actually executed the development, construction and ultimately…
”You keep talking about all the changes in Private Practice. What do you mean, and what’s happening?” What I thought I would do today is summarize how changes during the last decade have impacted doctor’s behaviors and decisions we all must consider in private practice. Don’t read any further if you want sugarcoated op-ed. This is…
How do you react when patients say “No, Doctor”. This is always a big question in medicine, getting patients to follow advice. In drug treatments it’s typically dosing compliance. In any other therapy where patients are typically treated intensively at first, it’s in-office and home care. But there is a bigger issue we need to…
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? Of course you do! Well, all businesses and the practice of medicine…
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. How many times have you seen an ad in a magazine…Or A TV commercial…Or any other marketing message and thought “Hmmm…that just doesn’t sound right to me”? The…
Learning to meet patients ‘where they are’ in life some days is more challenging than making an accurate diagnosis. Despite being one of the most important tasks as a physician, some either don’t learn this skill or shy away from it. And we certainly don’t as a rule do a good job of teaching this…
It’s no secret. I’m a play junkie. If I don’t go outside and play, regularly, I get cranky, stale. Daily work becomes harder, stiffer, less fluid. You probably are the same. But maybe it’s been far too long since you let yourself find out. We’ll here’s a whole new reason to go play. Patients love…
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. 1. Be Accountable to yourself Hold yourself accountable for the business of private practice because no one else will. Learn to lean on your team which at a minimum must include an Attorney familar with…
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? Why not start with some practice resolutions? This is after all what…
The beginning of the 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”. Chances to compound upon the wisdom of our years, do some things better, do others differently while eliminating both stuff and activities which no longer serve us.…