----And to Their Ultimate Personal Potential for Profoundly Increasing the Quality of Healthcare for Their Medical Patients In the Process?"

"When I discovered why I ended up losing
my private medical practice, like so many
physicians for financial reasons have,
and discovered the reason was my complete
business ignorance, which no medical schools
in our nation provide, it tore me apart."

These are the questions I ask myself daily as I devote hours daily spent on finding the right words, the convincing magic of belief that there is a higher level of our medical profession service to the healthcare of our nation and to our medical patients which has seemingly been kept away from all medical student's awareness over the
last century.

All medical schools and medical education scholars, for reasons not yet made public, continue to completely disregard the business nature of our profession as being an element of medical education that has no value to medical doctors and the healthcare industry of our nation.

This action of the medical education scholars continues to be reprehensible and a covert action resulting in a continued barrier to the advancement of all physician's skills and medical knowledge as well as their inherent strife to improve the healthcare of our citizens.

Motivation and inspiration are quite different processes. Motivation begins and ends within ourselves. Motivation can't be given to someone or created by another person and given to you. It's created by oneself and no one else can motivate you.

You can be inspired or stimulated by others but your motivation from those processes is what your mind chooses to hear and act on. Inspiration is a process that originates either outside yourself... such as a hearing someone give a talk that got you interested in doing something... or inside our minds which was interpreted by your brain as a strong impetus to entice you to take action on something. Your motivation to go and do it is the result.

Something in your mind happens because we have emotional triggers that become activated by some sort of stimulation process such as your own ideas that suddenly surface, reasons for doing things that you hear, something that connects the puzzle pieces together and you know how to move ahead. A bridge has been created that now enables you to move from thought processes or fantasies to reality, from possible to probable, and from dreams to ultimate factual results.

How does one inspire motivation?

Your motivation that convinced you to become a physician was self-induced and was triggered by what you thought, heard, saw, read, or understood the benefits and value of. It inspired you and then you created the motivation to do it. 

Like the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" says that all the inspiration in the world will not incite your motivation to action unless the information fed to you convinces you that you can accomplish it.

The first step in the process is always a series of informative and convincing arguments that mentally offer you possibilities. In my view, that fact is the primary means for stimulating doctors to do anything. In real terms for example, physicians will rarely become motivated to attain an academic business education unless they are told or educated about how critical it is to their survival in practice. The educational stimulus is what will induce the motivation to learn business principles and strategies.

The problem today (and over the last 100 years) is that medical students and physicians are never told about, lectured to, informed of, inspired to, or offered instruction about the inherent value, benefits, advantages, and responsibilities they have to learn business essentials. All this is entirely forgotten, disregarded, or left out of the medical education process. What to do?...

1. Isn't private or group medical practice a real medical practice business?

2. Shouldn't physicians be taught about medical practice business management?

3. What happens when a physician manages a medical practice business without any real
     business education?

4. Why do you think so many physicians are now selling their
     private medical practices to hospitals?

5. How can a physician improve their income other than by working
     harder and seeing many more patients--ending in burnout?

6. Any thoughts? No, it's not to have your spouse get a job?

7. What is the one simple way to insure every physician will not lose
their private medical practice for financial reasons?

I ask you--what would it take on my part, for you to become inspired enough to at least look at the problem I've outlined above, think about the truth of it all, and read further on the topic. Would I need to tell you all of the well known consequences that result from the lack of a business education you certainly will have, or would that not get me anywhere with you?

Would you need a lot more information to even consider that I might be right? Would offering you a list of all the benefits and advantages of a business education would provide you with? Should I show you all the ways you are able to get this knowledge about medical practice business and marketing without stopping your medical practice for two years to obtain an MBA on campus for
$40,000 or so?

Is there a preliminary source of information about medical practice business and marketing you would need to prove to yourself that you have been shortchanged by your medical school for not providing you with the business knowledge you will need to rise higher in you income and success in your medical career?

If you wanted to start with that today, and not cost much money to learn these things, would you be satisfied with the list of medical practice business and marketing books that I have read and have a list of--and would avoid courses, avoid stopping your practice or slowing it down to get what you need to raise the gutter level of business knowledge you have far higher than you would
ever have expected?

You might take a hard look at what makes all businesses profitable, persistently grow, and provide the owners with the satisfaction that most physicians do not enjoy today. Not only that, but you might want to discover what you don't have, or do, that that all business owners already know and you (physicians) don't.

I see so many frustrated physicians today that because of poor incomes are leaning to shortcuts in the healthcare of patients to reduce stress and inadequate income that you may never attain, that increases family problems, that makes you neglect your kids and what they expect from you as a professional with family obligations, and that are ready to quit medical practice instead of obtaining the knowledge that will ensure your survival and pump up your confidence.

You see, I'm not joking about these things you need to involve yourself in to do a far better job at being both a great physician and family loved individual, and it does take some work to get there. Hell, you are already working hard, so what's the problem with a little work that will reduce your practice workload by half, or more?

Why would I waste my time at my age trying to do something that would not escalate medical practice and physicians to levels of income and satisfaction that will likely spread throughout the healthcare world, once the truth becomes known?

If your mind is in need of some additional clarity about business knowledge in 
medical practice...

Read my new book revision, second edition, being published July 2021 at all the usual book vendors, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.

Title:  The Wounded Physician Project

I think you will be amazed at what you learn!

Dr Graham

----Professional Probe----

"Various stages of my personal life in medical practice"

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