New Neurology Micropractice

July 26, 2006

Hi,

My fiancee and I are in the process of opening a Neurology

Micropractice and we have a few questions for the group. But first

I'd like to give a little bit of background about myslef because I

hope to become involved in the micropractice movement. I went to

medical school because, as an insulin dependent diabetic, I was not

pleased with the quality of medical care. I (arrogantly) thought

that I could do it better than my own doctors and I planned to

become an endocrinologist. Over the course of medical school, I

realized that the system was broken, it wasn't that all doctors were

jerks. I went into pathology for health reasons, but made the

mistake of chosing a program that was extremely demanding and my

health suffered, so I left residency after intern year. My fiancee,

, is a Neurologist who specializes in Multiple Sclerosis and

doesn't perform EMGs. We are in the early stages of opening a

micropractice in Rutland, Vermont and will soon be moving from

Charlottesville, VA. will be the clinician and I will do

everything else. Our questions:

1. Is anyone within dringing distance (say 150 miles) of

Charlottesville, VA who would mind if I came and spent a few hours

with them to see their setup, paricularly their EMR/ practice

management software? I'd like to hear it from a doc using it

instead of the vendor.

2. Are there any Neurology micropractices already operating out

there. If so, do any of them operate without performing EMGs?

3. From reading the archives of posts, I see a few husband and wife

teams. Can anyone speak to the challenges of working with their

spouse?

4. In the article that Gordon just sent us, it mentioned that no

one had quantified the micropractice movement beyond the data from

the 1st micropractice cohort. I was wondering if anyone thought it

would be worthwhile to send out a formal survey to current

micropractitioners and those thinking about beginning a

micropracrice. It might be interesting to describe barriers to

beginning a micropractice and the difficulties in the early stages

of a micropractice.

5. Is membership on this listserv enough to get us an invite to the

DC conference in September?

Thanks for all the valuable info provided by this group.

Schulz-Heik

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