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Physician Job Seekers
27 November 2006I want a hamburger… no, a cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I want a milkshake… For those of you who have seen Caddy shack you’ll recall that Judge Smails rebukes Spalding and tells him “you’ll get nothing and like it!” One of the best lines ever. Sometimes we want to tell physicians that as they rattle [...]
Physician Compensation
27 October 2006I feel like we always come back to physician comp, anybody else get that? Anyway, people are always curious about it so we talk about it. I talked about it quite a bit with Marcy Tolkoff at Medical Economics a few months ago and her story is the lead in Medical Economics this month. The article [...]
Big ol’ Baby
25 October 2006Please bear with me on my Andy Rooney rant, but I gotta tell you, I get the sense more and more every day that people feel like the world owes them something. We’ve started using the word entitled a lot around here. Entitled to a job that pays better, to less travel, better benefits, more [...]
Computers are a Fad
13 October 2006I’ve said this for years and apparently 75% of physicians concur. A recent article in The Washington Post states that approximately 25% of physicians in the U.S. use some form of electronic health records. Doctor Anonymous shares her views on this in this blog post. The two main reasons she feels the majority of the [...]
I’m Starting with the Man in the Mirror
6 October 2006I got a very random email overnight and copied it below. From: Name Changed for Privacy reasons to “Sorry, bitter, litigious doctor candidate” or SBLDC Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:57 PM To: info@medicuspartners.com Subject: 200K If I accept a position that you present, and it does pay what you advertise, can I sue? [...]
Scary
2 October 2006Occasionally new clients say things during our initial meetings that floor me. Most of the time they are funny. Sometimes they are scary. Sometimes, I fear, they are illegal. “I’ve got nothing against them personally, but our town won’t accept any foreign doctors” “Black physicians haven’t done well here, so we’re not interested in hiring [...]
Where the Bread is Buttered
27 September 2006Common Sense tells me that any business person wishing to have a successful and profitable business would want to do the following: Situate the business in an area in where the type of customers you want will frequent the business. Do the things that will generate the most profit for the business. We’ve [...]
Family Practice Woes
22 September 2006To be fair family practice is not what is used to be. However, there are still plenty of family physicians that do VERY well. Musings of a Dinosaur’s blog today discusses the concept of not dealing with insurance companies and only taking cash paying patients. While some docs can pull this off it is a [...]
Hit the Nail on the Head
1 September 2006Musings of a dinosaur is a site that chronicles a solo FP and he just nails this one. Jim
Physician Compensation 2006
17 July 2006The Modern Healthcare physician compensation survey is out. It’s interesting in that it shows the tracking data from several data companies as well as physician recruiting firms and yet the results are pretty consistent across the board. Here is the link: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article.cms?articleId=40651 Bob
