Re: RE: Replicating Solo Practices - the best route?

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I am inspired by the many doctors on this list who are

making their practice dreams happen.

I think those most likely to consider a solo or micro

practice are those just starting out with strong ideas

about what they want and those making a career change.

Talking to the M3 and M4 students, mentoring them and

showing them the economics of the practice are the way

to add to the fold.

For an established doc, the pain of transitioning to a

new model must be less than the pain of staying in the

old model and grinding away on the wheel. This ground

is not as fertile.

There is little formalized business training in

medical school or most residencies. Most hospital

systems with residencies want you business savvy

enough to be scared of the unknown and go to work for

the company store.

The process of practice start up would be greatly

aided by a real world how-to manual of practical step

by step instructions. Ideally this would be an ebook

that could rapidly be changed as software

recommendations and the general practice landscape

changes.

The challenge is to make practice start up plans as

easy as Mc's instructions for making a hamburger

so that any doc with limited business training could

do it.

It helps the cause of family medicine to speak out

about the joys and frustrations we face. The stress

and economic pressures on Family Medicine is a classic

case of the mom and pop store vs. Walmart. People

want to hear about that. They want to watch the

underdog give 'em hell.

This spring I will be speaking about a bit about my

practice at:

the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern Univ.

the Illinois Rural Health Association and

the AAFP 10 state meeting in Chicago about my " trying

to be ideal " practice.

Best Regards,

Ben Brewer MD

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Ben,I'm following the posts on the yahoo practice management listserv. Are you on the AAFP private sector advocacy listserv? It would be great to hear some of these stories there.Shirley Pigott, MD23 years in solo family medicineTexasBen Brewer wrote: I am inspired by the many doctors on this list who aremaking their practice dreams happen.I think those most likely to consider a solo or micropractice are those just starting out with strong ideasabout what they want and those making a career change. Talking to the M3 and M4 students, mentoring them andshowing them the economics of the practice are the wayto add to the fold.For an established doc, the pain of transitioning to anew model must be less than the pain of

staying in theold model and grinding away on the wheel. This groundis not as fertile.There is little formalized business training inmedical school or most residencies. Most hospitalsystems with residencies want you business savvyenough to be scared of the unknown and go to work forthe company store.The process of practice start up would be greatlyaided by a real world how-to manual of practical stepby step instructions. Ideally this would be an ebookthat could rapidly be changed as softwarerecommendations and the general practice landscapechanges.The challenge is to make practice start up plans aseasy as Mc's instructions for making a hamburgerso that any doc with limited business training coulddo it.It helps the cause of family medicine to speak outabout the joys and frustrations we face. The stressand economic pressures on Family Medicine is a classiccase of the mom and

pop store vs. Walmart. Peoplewant to hear about that. They want to watch theunderdog give 'em hell. This spring I will be speaking about a bit about mypractice at: the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern Univ. the Illinois Rural Health Association and the AAFP 10 state meeting in Chicago about my "tryingto be ideal" practice. Best Regards, Ben Brewer MD __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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Re:

RE: Replicating Solo Practices - the best route?

“The process of

practice start up would be greatly

aided by a real world how-to manual of practical step

by step instructions. Ideally this would be an ebook

that could rapidly be changed as software

recommendations and the general practice landscape

changes.

The challenge is to make practice start up plans

as

easy as Mc's instructions for making a hamburger

so that any doc with limited business training could

do it.”

Ben Brewer MD

This seems like something that Seto’s “Wikki thing”

(I forget exactly what it is called) would be really good for.

, if you are out there, can you remind

me what that thing does and how to find it? I know, I know…I

should have it by now..I

confess to being a bit slow on the e-uptake. My New Years resolution is to be a more

efficient user of my tech resources, and I have already made progress by

learning to customize my mdexpress desktop and have

increased my web access more than double in the last 4 weeks. (I started early

on my resolution) And I managed to

do that even though my server suffered sudden death on the Sunday before

Christmas and spent 4 days on life support in the computer ICU. Talk about a lesson in the importance of

redundancy! My data is all safe and

sound, but it was a rough four days when I had NO access to any data. As soon as my ulcer heals I have to

upgrade to newer version of my emr, but you can bet I

will have backups of my backups before I try it. Anyway, remind me how to wikki if it’s not too much trouble.

Thanks,

Annie

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