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Open Minds
7 August 2008I was recently interviewed by HealthLeaders (click here for the link) regarding the recruitment of IMGs. While the article does a nice job of addressing the importance of being open minded and looking past whatever prejudices one may have in recruiting IMGs, it doesn’t address how this has changed over the years. The most obvious is that [...]
Is there life out there?
6 August 2008In general, I believe that life is too short to be unhappy. I advocate a positive outlook. I believe in doing your best to try to make your circumstances positive ones. And, if you fail in doing so, moving on to find positive circumstances. Most of us spend 2/3rds or MORE of our waking hours at [...]
Gonna Get Paid
29 July 2008Football is in the air. NFL teams have started their training camps and we are only weeks away from football games. Granted, preseason, meaningless and often boring football games but football games nonetheless. As sure as the sun comes up every morning, the start of training camp always brings players holding out for more money. [...]
My Wife Contributes to the Physician Shortage
2 July 2008After 17 years of taking care of other people’s kids, my wife has hung up her white coat. She had been struggling with the idea for more than 2 years when she made up her mind in January and informed her office manager and three partners. They were in shock. She was the founding physician [...]
Finding Nirvana…..
20 June 2008There is no Nirvana. This is the title of a presentation I have done for various residency programs over the years. The presentation outlines the pros and cons of the primary settings in which physicians go to work post training; solo practice with financial assistance from a hospital, single specialty group, multi specialty group, or [...]
Are the Good Times Really Over?
14 May 2008I met with a long time client yesterday; on my drive home I thought about the Great Merle Haggard song. We sat in my friend’s office like we’ve done many times. We got caught up on his kids and mine. We talked about how the physicians I’ve recruited for him over the years are doing. We spent [...]
2008 Physician Compensation Survey
28 April 2008At long last we’re ready to release the survey results. You can download a copy from our website www.medicuspartners.com or get it here in a pdf: 2008 Medicus Partners Physician Compensation Survey As I’ve confessed, I’m a little bit of a nerd about this. The software we used allows you to look at the data from [...]
“You So Skinny”
17 July 2007A sweet, sweet Korean woman owns the deli on the first floor of our building. The food is merely edible, but the family is exceedingly nice and that makes me want to eat there more often. So, today I ordered my lunch and attempted to communicate to her that I only wanted a little bit [...]
“Throwed Rolls”
16 July 2007I got my fix last week in Sikeston, MO. For those of you not from Southeast Missouri, you get “throwed rolls” at Lambert’s. It’s a great big family restaurant where, after you order, they have servers walking around offering you all the sides you can eat (pass arounds), where, when you want a roll, you [...]
Life on the Iceberg
29 June 2007My last post detailed what recruiting doctors is like… depending on whether you are dealing with doctors who are looking (those on the tip of the iceberg) or the ones who aren’t, but are harder to find. Coincidentally, I got this email from the NAPR’s Security Committee recently and came across it today. It details [...]
