"You know this... right?... that our government
has had a multi-decade plan for taking full control
of our healthcare as well as the medical profession
itself. And do you know that our politicians must
eliminate private/independent medical practice to
gain total control of healthcare, before they can
go to the next step... control of the medical
profession and all of its entities.
There certainly must be a good percentage of physicians graduating from medical school today who either have a desire to be an independent functioning medical doctor not caught up in the web of the managed care industry, or have a personality, attitude, or mindset about medical practice that is incompatible with the second level of restraints to medical practice (managed care facilities). The first level is the US Government restraints on private medical practice.
If, as the recent statistics and surveys of physicians tells us, the facts are true, that 34% of physicians leaving the profession within 10 years (Modern Medicine, August 2012, Jackson Healthcare poll), right at the time that the baby boomers generation is reaching "Medicare-Age," Americans above 50 years old now are in for a rude awakening environment.
Either patients will be flooding the private physician's offices or making appointments to be seen by their HMO or Hospital employed physicians--either of which is a major crisis and division of the medical profession that can never be repaired.
Most of the media is overwhelmingly biased towards socialized medicine because they have publicly shown their colors while marching to the tune of the "far left" in the US Congress. What is even more disturbing is the same bias among the Academic Physicians promoting socialization of medicine.
If you speak to physicians who have spent their practice life as an employee in the University Hospitals and Medical Schools, you will find that they are totally oblivious to the problems and concerns of private doctors. They are already brainwashed to the great advantages of the team approach to patient care (meaning doctors practice by a list of standards, procedures, and statistically driven outcomes of treatments).
Actually the team approach for medical treatment has been used by private doctors for decades. That's what medical consultations are for. I can't count the number of times I picked up the phone to get expert advice from other physicians I trusted. It could be called "virtual" teamwork--but at least I could select my experts instead of having them assigned for me to use. Does that ring a bell?
What happens to that 25% of doctors who will remain in practice after the medical
profession holocaust?
Will they eventually give up the struggle to remain in private practice? As I have been saying for the last several years, over half of medical doctors will quit the profession for economic reasons (Modern Medicine, Aug. 3, 2012, Diane Sofranec article, survey). They quit because their practice income will not support their medical practice remaining open, or don't make enough money to guarantee their family commitments, such as college for their kids.
After being convinced they had entered a profession that was supposed to provide a substantial income, lifestyle, respect, and independence of educational judgments, being deprived of the whole package they bought into at the beginning, suddenly recognized they had made a bad decision for their life career.
What strikes me is that physicians may leave private practice whether they could make a suitable income or not, because of the other reasons that 65% of physician's serious frustrations stem from, is also a formidable cause for quitting. Add all those reasons together and all hell will hit the fan soon, that is if we are still around after 2025.
What seems to be so odd is the fact that there is apparently no problem recruiting medical students in spite of the $200,000 educational debt they accumulate before starting their medical practice--are they feeding the premed students some kind of drug that warps their analytic minds? Or, are all medical students from wealthy families only? When the scholarships shrink or disappear, what then? I predict that med school classes will be increasingly filled with foreign students in the future.
Do medical schools really believe that scholarship funds, funded by alumni medical school graduates who will be quitting practice soon, is enough to sustain minorities in med school?
Lesson: My prediction is that every doctor that remains in private practice will need to have the equivalent of an MBA business education at the very least, to survive in private medical practice
in the near future.
Now turn your mind to the opposite situation--where the stresses of medical practice are resolved, our government has failed to control healthcare, and 99% of physicians in private medical practice businesses have gained a heartfelt and sincere satisfaction in their private medical practice careers.
There is no doubt in my mind that these medical practice destroying factors can and will be resolved by one item being added to all medical schools education curriculums that has been totally ignored over the past century for some covert reason that has hidden the truth.
An academic business education is the only sensible solution to what all physicians must have, which provides all of the knowledge, strategies, processes, procedures, intellectual stimulation, accomplished objectives, and pleasurable experiences all physicians have for a century been seeking, but never found (or never told about).
Think about the results and consequences that are the well known direct outcomes for business educated physicians such as...
- Business education provides all of the business tools necessary for any physician to earn as much income as they want, whenever they want, and for any reason--which physicians have not had over the last century.
- Physicians frustrations originate primarily from working hard at practicing medicine, then realizing that they find themselves in a position where there appears to be no way out of their financial problems and financial obligations they have to themselves, their medical practice business, and their families--which in their minds is failure in their careers, and they don't know
why it is happening nor what the cause of it is. - The business education tools enable physicians to...
1. Reach their expectations they had for their careers--another cause of frustration
2. No longer worry or be upset about financial problems--like so many physicians have today
3. Never passover any new skills training, educational courses, or vacation times because of
lack of enough money
4. Never have to worry about having the income necessary to send their kids to college or
graduate school
5. Never have a problem funding a retirement plan
6. Have a higher priority for family life, marriage, and relationships
7. Understand that they have the income for medical practice business planning,
medical practice marketing, first class medical practice management--for any
degree of involvement in each that they choose
8. Belief that marketing is the tool to use to recruit more than enough medical
patients to keep their practice growing--in turn it provides the practice business
income they desire.
9. Believe and can rely on having a strong medical practice business foundation
that is necessary to manage the patient loads that their marketing strategies
provide, the steady growth of the medical practice business success, and the
healthcare business management which dominates the area around.
10. Understand that with the great knowledge about business that a physician is in
a better position for tolerating the increasing government medical private medical
practice mandates and restrictions than those physicians who have no business
knowledge to defend themselves against such abuse.
These bits of information are what energizes physicians to expand their passion for becoming a better physician, doing more to make themselves more valuable to their patients because they are able to remain on the cutting edge of medical knowledge, skills, and future potential possibilities. We call that feeling--confidence. What radiates out from confidence is your character, integrity, reputation, and charisma.
You might say that you have become a hot jockey on a hot racehorse.
----Professional Probe----
"Following the path without seeing where
it leads you first, is the ideal means of
persuading medical students and physicians
to advocate for socialized medicine."
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