Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Welcome to my Doctors Dining Room

Welcome to Doctors Dining Room.
The Genesis of this site came from years of being in health care. I have been a provider, an educator, a hospital administrator, an out patient clinic owner, a county health commissioner and a practice/business management consultant. In over 25 years of experience, I have found a common thread to be the need or desire for a forum where physicians and dentists are able to share successes, failures, challenges and frustrations with everything health care.

Physicians have the luxury of a place they can go with in the walls of the hospital and communicate with their peers about the business of health care, the frustrations of escalating costs and diminishing revenues. They can share cases and exchange ways of practicing medicine. This place is called the "doctors dining room". The problem is that typically providers only have enough time to grab a bite to eat, say hi and run off to the OR or to round on their patients or get back to the office so that they can pay the overhead. Dentists on the other hand do not even have an area where they can share with their peers. Typically dentists are in solo practice and have very little opportunity for peer review or interaction.

The purpose of this site is to allow health care providers the time and forum to discuss anything they might want to when it comes to the business or practice of their discipline. The main focus of the site will be to discuss the "business" of health care. It is imperative that practices be run as businesses and this site hopes to accelerate the learning curve of providers so that they might avoid some of the more common business mistakes as well as share stories of success and failure.

While the business of health care is essentially the same regardless of what type of health care service you practice, it is my intention to start to develop sites specific to the various disciplines, IE. medicine, dentistry, podiatry, hospital administration, etc. I welcome your comments, topics for discussion, insights, thoughts, frustrations as well as ideas for meaningful change.

This site does not profess to be the last word or legal authority on those issues we discuss. As always, the proper professionals should be consulted prior to adopting any strategies discussed on this site. We will be honest, open and frank in our discussions with a goal of making health care better for the providers, staff, families and patients. Again, welcome to the Doctors Dining Room.

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