The whole point of a family practice is treating patients.
Once the clinic is set up, staffed and all the necessary systems in place, it’s time to cultivate a client base.
ReferralsThe first step in getting referrals from other physicians is in letting those physicians know you are available.
If you’ve applied for and been approved [...]
It has been a long time coming but family practice physicians are finally making the way to the front of the line.
It has been a long struggle attempting to gain status quo.
That was never really what they wanted, what they wanted was to make a difference and for it to be known that [...]
Today more than ever women are helping to change the face of family practice.
There have always been more men in family practice than there have been women.
For many years, women were reluctant to enter family practice because there was gender stereotyping, sexism, and difficulties of mixing and balancing both family and work.
Today, [...]
Some family practice doctors have advanced in being some of the very few doctors that are legally able to prescribe buprenorphine, which is also known as Suboxone.
This drug is prescribed as an alternative in replacement therapy for opiate addiction.
Family practice doctors must get certified in order to join the program and are, by [...]
Word of mouth spreads the fastest.
If a family practice doctor is good enough, people will wait sometimes for hours to see him.
However, as word spreads about a doctor so do his patients.
If he doe not have such a great bedside manner then he will likely lose patients but if he does he [...]
All businesses face challenges and struggles but with today’s health care system and its complexity the challenges that family practices face are great and even numerous.
It is often difficult to maintain viability.
Just attempting to generate the understanding of a family practice can be a struggle in itself.
There are many flaws in the [...]
