"Nothing is more demanding of our time than the
requirement for confronting the repetitive onslaught of
changes that are happening with increasing frequency
in the practice of medicine"
Adapting the mind to constant and recurrent changes in your medical career should be a priority. It should inspire a person to become a deep thinker in order to have a knapsack full of acceptable backup alternatives. To have a brain full of experiences, is a great advantage in a world that is changing daily.
I don't think that this approach to life is very prevalent among physicians. All they really know is how to practice medicine, nothing else to rely on later. Physicians don't ever seem to have a Plan B for their careers, which makes it much more troublesome when they have to give up their private practice as so many of them do today.
Right after I started my solo medical practice, the malpractice insurance rates became so high that all the insurance carriers left California. It left thousands of medical doctors there without medical malpractice coverage... and for OBGs it was terrible. I used arbitration agreements for about two years before I could again afford to buy malpractice insurance in California. It was a totally unexpected event that had never happened before in healthcare.
There I was, brand new in private medical practice, looking for a miracle that finally came two years later. Soon after that the government mandate, for managed care in medicine that had snuck up on us, was passed, we all began losing our patients to the HMOs, IPAs, and Kaiser in the 1970s. It was unexpected because most of us never understood how it would effect our own practices. Remember that we physicians, even back then, were totally business ignorant.
It was like finding ourselves standing in the bull ring, staring at a threatening bull with huge horns, and there we were in our head-to-toe bright red outfit on.
You see, we though we might lose a few patients and keep all the loyal ones. It was just the opposite effect, most lost a third or half of their loyal patients and had no idea how to recruit a bunch of new patients (no business or marketing knowledge = tools) to make up the difference.
These are reasons to train you mind for quick thinking and rapid action to be successful. Get and read the book by John C. Maxwell titled, "How Successful People Think."
“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”
“Growth inside fuels growth outside.”
“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”
“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
---John C. Maxwell
“You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you
can control your attitude toward all of what happens
to you…You can choose to be happy and
grateful rather than disappointed and bitter,
by focusing on how it could have turned out
worse but didn’t, rather than how it could have
turned out better but didn’t.”
– Brian Tracy
It' always a good idea to choose the things that you can control, not the ones you can't control.
Many times physicians have never thought about all the things they can control which results in confusion and lack of action on anything. You are in control of your mind and what you think or know about. You start there and progress on after your subconscious gives you more alternatives. For all those who are entrepreneurial minded, the thoughts just float into your conscious perception. Nearly all physicians are inherently gifted with an entrepreneurial mind, and most don't realize it.
----Professional Probe----
