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Summary: Not Enough!
Review: The author seems to partly grasp the challenges (i.e. managed care, cash flow, office staff, family life, etc.) of a being a physician. However, he offers no practical solutions to help overcome these challenges. Changing one's "mindset" is simply not enough. I expected a whole lot more from this book and kept waiting for answers.
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Summary: "Words To Live By"
Review: The E-Myth Physician was on target, and not only about physicians, but also all doctors, including, veterinarians, dentists and other medical professionals.I strongly recommend this book and have to several friends who are doctors. I recommend it because it pegs so many doctors and health care professionals and why they often lead unfulfilling careers and lives. I started incorporating what I've learned from E-Myth last February 2001 when I enrolled in The E-Myth Mastery Program. I can relate to Keith and Susan very well because like me, my father is also a veterinarian and I have experienced many of the same things they related in their story. Even though I recognize the same pattern because I have lived it, I often have difficulty not falling into the same unfulfilling trap. That is why I am working daily on E-Myth Mastery to help my family and myself have a life outside of my career. Chapter 12 on the subject of work has had a big impact on the way I think about my business. "Work is the cause of obsessive-compulsive behaviors by doctors. Work. You've got to do it every single day. Work. If you fall behind you'll pay for it. Work. There is either too much or not enough." -from page 97 of The E-Myth Physician. The E-Myth philosophy stresses the importance of the need of working on your practice and not just working in it to achieve equity and something that lives without me. It gives me a visual way to realize my goals and a way to build each level on a solid foundation and systems that work in my business. It is excellent because by managing the process in a medical business is the only way I can find peace in my life and prevent career burnout as I mature in my profession.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: The useful message from this book could be stated in two pages. Gerber doesn't understand what motivates most physicians or what differentiates the practice of medicine from other forms of human commerce. It's true that most physicians are inept at business and have much to learn from entrepreneurs. However there are many aspects to the commerce of health care that pose unique challenges for the entrepreneur. Moreover, many business tenets are antithetical to traditional principles of the patient / caretaker relationship. The book is simplistic and off the mark.
Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: The useful message from this book could be stated in two pages. Gerber doesn't understand what motivates most physicians or what differentiates the practice of medicine from other forms of human commerce. It's true that most physicians are inept at business and have much to learn from entrepreneurs. However there are many aspects to the commerce of health care that pose unique challenges for the entrepreneur. Moreover, many business tenets are antithetical to traditional principles of the patient / caretaker relationship. The book is simplistic and off the mark.
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Summary: This should be mandatory reading for Docs.
Review: With medicine headed for a meltdown and physician dissatisfaction and burnout at staggering levels, this book could not come at a better time. I read this and felt renewed hope that there is a better way to approach that thing we call a practice and turn it into what we dreamed it would be. Michael Gerber does not give a canned strategy for success because there is no such thing. Instead he teaches you to reinvent your practice according to your desires. He gives you the tools but it is up to you to put them to good use. Read it and dream. Then read it again and do. I see it as a ray of hope in an otherwise dark time for medicine.
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