"Simply put--should we grab our Bible
and cram for the final."
"College anecdotes often remind us of the rooster
that believes the sun comes up because he crows."
Doubt, discouragement, and denial universally hinder our progress towards medical practice business success. History teaches us that weather seasons change, but happens in a repeatable and on time schedule enabling us to prepare for what we know is coming. What we don't know is whether the next season will nudge us with the earth-shattering thrusts of nature that appear unexpectedly and may be short-lived as a butterfly in a hurricane.
The fact that over time nearly all things we see and we experience are in a quiet movement of changing. Healthcare and medicine medical practice management are good examples of such changes. The hope is that the changes produce advantageous benefits to us over the long haul. What is happening presently across our nation in healthcare business management and medical practice management is the result of the complete lack of advantageous changes being recognized or recognized, but ignored, in an intentional manner.
For example, back in the old days when physicians were forced to rely on various animal and food payments for their healthcare services and trading had become a common means of exchange in place of currency, the exchange was fair and acceptable. As the 1800s rolled out, the economy evolved into its dependency on a currency platform as a means of establishing the value, demand, ease of exchange, and importance of products and services that became acceptable to
the population.
Businesses became dependent on the currency means of being paid for their products and services. The monetary system was perfect for them because value, purchase and services, were magnified by speed and convenience.
The problem was that the business monetary system separated itself from the smaller family businesses and services because it was far more difficult to decide on the monetary value of products and services. Each transaction of value/cost was decided by people, on the spot decisions, rather than a far and wide standard cost for products and services that businesses used.
Physicians, although being as credible and necessary for the population as large businesses, were forced to remain in small and independent medical practice businesses. That placed the medical profession at a severe disadvantage financially. Large businesses made $milllions while solo physicians without medical practice business planning and lacked business knowledge
remained in poverty.
That egregious monetary situation has continued for over century and continues today in our advanced modern society.
Can you imagine what healthcare and medical practice would be like if a century ago the medical profession had been organized into a major industry in our country, self-sustaining, independent of
governmental control.
Further imagine that some entity would have recognized the business principles that govern all businesses today and enables them to become top-tier and very successful. And if they had demanded that all physicians receiver a business education so that they would also become
highly successful in their medical practices, like small commercial businesses do today.
We are on average a very intelligent and entrepreneurial group of physicians in our country that deserve better. The real tragedy is that essentially no physician graduating from medical schools today has had any academic business education, nor was it ever provided or even offered to them while in medical school, with rare exceptions.
The consequences of that deficiency is now rapidly reducing the quality of healthcare and destroying private medical practice daily--still fostered by
intentional ignorance.
We are all part of a growing disintegration of America, as we used to know it, as well as an overall world wide economic, political, and educational deterioration of societies leading to the end of times. If in fact this might be the case, then there will come a time soon where there will be no great desire to improve anything, especially in the practice of medicine.
Maybe, the substitutionary changes (doctors being replaced by mid-level medical providers rapidly and extensively) happening over the last decade or so is in reality part of the decaying process already in healthcare, at the same time that the world societies are decaying. Is it a clear and present danger that we are too distracted to realize?
Just think about it. Medicine is rapidly moving from physical diagnosis to technical diagnosis of disease. Physicians and PA's today ascult the lung functions through layers of clothing instead of directly on the skin. If I had done such a thing in medical school, I would have been kicked out of school. Patients are unable to afford the best medications for their health problems.
Employment incomes are gradually leveling out, not keeping up with inflation. Patients can't afford nursing homes. Society survives on increasing numbers of government subsidies and charitable handouts. Advanced higher education in now unaffordable and education is followed by ever increasing debt that will never be paid back.
All of these issues point towards one final end. Politics are unable to fix it. Religion hasn't been able to change things around. The economy blunders escalate the situation. People are becoming incapable of changing anything except by violence and destruction.
Medical schools, to remain functional have resorted to recruiting students from many other countries, normally those who are wealthy enough to pay the tuition. Additionally, with government financial support already fading and pending bankruptcy, medical schools now are marketing alumni for donations more than ever. A good number of the foreign doctors educated here go back to their own countries to practice.
Add to that the drop in number of Americans applying to medical school should tell where medicine is headed. Then add the inability of physicians to make enough income in practice to remain solvent, at least until they become employed and then are paid in one way or another with government money that won't last either.
Why aren't doctors provided both a business and medical education? No one says that it is impossible to do, but that's what the medical education scholars think and propagate by
their actions.
If all schools beginning with elementary education provided economic and business education for all students, the world would be in a much better situation. The world runs on business. All money is derived from business. It can be fixed--but only with God's assistance.
Requirements for maximizing your medical practice income
1. Good knowledge of medical practice management
2. Having the energy for continuous medical practice marketing
3. Medical practice business planning is important.
4. Marketing for physicians and their office staff is a winning set up.
5. Learn what makes a medical practice business successful.
6. Your medical practice business system is essential.
7. Bothe practice marketing and physician marketing is rewarding.
8. Business success is the objective of all physicians in private medical practice.
9. My business website—www.marketingamedicalpractice.com
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