"When private medical practice business income is
dropping and government fee restrictions and
mandates are increasing, why aren't physicians
searching for ways to counteract
this egregious problem?"
One has to ask themself, what is it that's holding them back...
Has burnout and ultimate frustration left them powerless?
Are physicians being held hostage to their Hippocratic Oath?
Have medical schools purposely handicapped physicians by preventing them from getting a business education?
Is their passion for medical practice far more important than their ability to earn enough money to support their family or lifestyle?
Have physicians lost all hope that improvements in the profession will soon occur?
Why haven't a million or so physicians been able to find my medical website online that
provides the solutions?
Are physicians just too arrogant to seek help?
Are physicians truly happy with their Professional Poverty situation?
Have physicians become so brainwashed by the medical tradition that they must force
themselves to suffer financially and not complain?
Do physicians now accept the fact that our government is far along in their plan to totally
control healthcare and the medical profession, that it's too late to fight back or do much of anything to prevent it?
Are private practice physicians now earning so much money in practice that they have no
reason to complain?
Have physicians come to the recognition that they have too few allies in our nation, most of whom in seven decades have completely failed to prevent government control of healthcare and the medical profession?
Is it any wonder why male college students are no longer applying to medical schools?
Is there any question why medical school recruitment programs have had to settle for women and foreign students to fill their classes recently?
Have you ever wondered what would happen to medical school recruitment programs, if the medical schools provided a business education for all medical students?
Since medical doctors are educated for only one thing and one career, would that influence their decisions to stay in medical practice regardless of the abuse they have to put up with?
Why has physician attrition continued to increase over the decades?
Why do surveys of physicians document that about 65% of practicing physicians admit serious frustration and disappointment in their medical practices?
Why do nearly all of the USA medical schools refuse to be responsible for the business education of medical students, when the academics all see and know what's been happening to private medical practice physicians over the last 7 decades?
Why do medical schools complain about the scant number of their graduates who later contribute anything back to their schools--when they can't make enough money to keep their practice open?
One wonders why there isn't at least two or three billionaires in our nation that would have the initiative to financially back the costs for medical schools to provide a business education to all medical students?
Because medical schools and universities annually receive multi-million dollar grants from our government using our tax dollars, why wouldn't there be enough income left over for medical schools to provide a business education for all medical students?
Can you imagine what our healthcare would be like if every private medical practice physician had the business and marketing tools (that all successful commercial businesses have and use to make millions of dollars) that would enable every physician in practice to make as much income as they want or need whenever they choose, enable every physician to afford the education, workshops, and training that is essential for each doctor to reach their highest potential in their practice and careers? And is still not available today.
All physicians know that marketing is essential for commercial businesses to remain solvent and to expand their businesses--so why do physicians continue to reject business education as a means to manage their own practice business?
If physicians can't make enough money to keep their practice open, how could they afford to stop practice for two years to obtain an MBA?
Why is it that a large segment of physicians are never able to fund a retirement plan or to afford a college education for their kids?
Medical practice is an essential ingredient for a nations survival, so for what purpose is our government eager to destroy private medical practice? I know, do you? A huge amount of surveys and statistics are available to document the factors that account for the disintegration of private medical practice, as well as medical practice under governmental and private company control who are restricted by government (ex. HMOs, and Kaiser Perm.)
Why wouldn't physicians in private medical practice that quit practice increase exponentially soon?
Would it be better for physicians to start an outside business or investment process long before they get to medical school if they could afford it?
Should college premeds be required to get the business education while in college, before applying to medical school? Should a business education be a requirement for application to medical schools in the future?
Are college premed groups even necessary, they are there only for the purpose of applying to medical school with recommendations? Premed curriculums in my college 1954-58
were nonexistent?
They laughed when I revealed the true core-cause of the attrition of physicians--
But when I gathered and presented the evidence to point it out, no one would listen!
It was the absolute cause for losing my own private medical practice. It followed that it was also the cause for thousands of other physicians losing their medical practices over the last century. The lack of a business education for physicians for the last century has continued with no attempt to correct the cause.
When one thinks more deeply about, and follows the trail of the fallout consequences resulting from the lack of a business education among all physicians in our nation in private medical practices, the searing truth of the matter becomes apparent.
I have yet to find any medical practice business statistics or surveys about how many private practice physicians have run the gauntlet and suffered the consequences of losing their medical practice for financial reasons, but the destructive consequences of such an event need to be exposed by further investigation.
The fact that about 400 physicians choose suicide each year in our nation might be part of that evidence. The fact that male college students have essentially stopped applying to medical schools over the past decade supports the evidence that they are smart enough to see what is happening today in the medical profession.
It is quite clear to me that the practice of medicine has become a last choice in the eyes of a large segment of our population, not only because of our government restrictions and mandates on medical practice that are increasing steadily.
The government's underground purpose of those restrictions and
mandates are to...
1. Cause a decrease of the incomes of private medical doctors...
2. thus, covertly causing physicians to lost their practices for financial reasons...
3. thus, forcing physicians to join the government controlled medical facilities as employees, if they prefer to continue to practice medicine...
4. thus, bringing all physicians under government control--called
socialized medicine...
5. thus, preparing the government to gain full control of the medical profession itself. That has been the plan for the Democrats, done quietly and slowly, over the last 7 decades one step at a time, almost unnoticed and with little resistance.
The process of the takeover is no longer secret and is wide open to the public. Anyone should wonder what has happened to the dental profession because they seem to be doing quite well with few complaints. The dentists were lucky enough to participate in the uprise of the golden goose. Implant technology is now making dentists wealthy. Why should they complain?
The only remaining professions besides dentistry that has never received a business education during their education and training were lawyers and physicians.
Their legal profession survives thanks to the medical profession. Medical malpractice cases have been the "cash cow" for the legal profession for a century and I believe this is the reason that the US Congress will never permit a law to pass that would require a cap on medical malpractice jury verdicts in the remaining 43 or so states that lack such a law. Remember that the great majority of both houses in congress are attorneys--they protect their own.
"I wrote this clip below for my old newsletter to medical professionals in 2015--my thoughts back then."
Professional poverty doesn't seem to bother most doctors.
As long as physicians can quit private medical practice anytime they choose and get a job as an employee in some healthcare organization, the issues of income will never impress any of them. Eventually when the available jobs and employment in healthcare facilities become rare, as it will be soon, then private medical practice may get more attention. Those jobs are already hard to find.
For non-specialists, jobs will likely continue to be available because there will be a continuous turnover of doctors leaving and coming into those jobs. For specialty doctors, however, job availability is now, and will become, more rare with time.
For specialists, it involves many more barriers to finding a job position. It means finding a job position that matches their choice of city or state, licensure, family desires, compatibility with peers, and being able to practice their specialty in the manner they prefer. What is so obvious a problem is that there are many restrictions when practicing under an employer of any type. Some procedures you know how to do, won't be allowed. Some ideas about patient treatment and management you may have, may be forbidden. Read about the CDC recently ordering physicians not to use certain medications to treat the Clovid-29 infections or else.
Forward thinking by physicians is commonly far short of adequate. Otherwise they might have made different decisions over time than they did. My experience in the military, Kaiser Permanente, and as a Hospitalist has solidified my mind about the huge disadvantages associated with being employed. Imaging leaving medical school all prepared to do great things in medical practice only to discover that you will only be permitted to do part of that expectation, because you do not control your income or your career.
What a shame it is to meet reality head-on only to discover that in medicine things are not as they seemed to be. Take the medical school teaching curriculums. These have been re-oriented to teaching medical students how to get jobs and make decisions relative to spending their medical careers in employed positions.
That should logically make all medical school applicants hesitant to continue in the profession. Yet they do, because they are easily kept ignorant about what lies ahead. Students are never told the truth about what's ahead.
Don't let these political and governmental restrictions on medical doctors and medical practice make you forget the basics for your survival in private medical practice business.
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
----Professional Probe----
"Perhaps one would need to dig a hole big enough to hold
the large number of physicians in our nation who are
tolerating professional poverty daily (and over the
last century) with absolutely no knowledge at all about
how to get themselves out of their financial problems.
It must be extremely difficult for physicians to recognize
the connection between business knowledge that
exists specifically to provide the tools to handle
that income problem (Business education) and a
highly successful money producing medical practice."
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