Medical Economics June 20, 2024
Integrate these five leadership skills to invigorate your patients, your staff, and your business.
There are so many current issues in the primary care market right now that primary care physicians (PCPs) know only too well. These include but are certainly not limited to regulatory and administrative burdens, lack of funding and of reimbursement, keeping up with electronic records systems, and pandemic-related repercussions. Amid all these pressures, we can sometimes lose sight of the fact that physicians are caretakers first, businesspeople second. True, there’s inordinate demand on them to run successful (i.e., profitable) practices that can employ qualified staff, maintain adequate supply inventories, and simply cover the rent in ever-more-expensive buildings in accessible locations. But in the long run, a...