Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Become a Successful Physician Inventor" Dr. Wilk: Been very successful. I invented the Da Vinci robot. I invented the gall bladder bag. I invented the five-millimeter stapler, a lot of other products that are on the market. So it's been a great 25 years. And looking forward to the next 25 years. [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Consulting Practice" Julie: We like top 10 lists, right? So top ten tips. We're talking about keeping your clients happy, satisfied. Well, remember, you no longer have to help everyone. You know, there are some people in this world that can't be helped. There are [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Consulting Practice" Julia: Action was on client expectations. I just want to summarize client expectations. Again, you can often tell right away if someone's expectations are unrealistic. You need to pay attention to that, listen. And if their expectations are unrealistic, walk away, save yourself [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Consulting Practice" So, on the niches, the takeaway, I think, is gonna be the protocol. Not the niche. You don't need to know your niche today but the protocol of procedure that you're gonna follow to figure out what your niche is gonna be. And, [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Consulting Practice” Jim: Hi. I'm Jim Mangraviti from SEAK, and I'm here with SEAK's president and founder, Steve Babitsky. Can you give me some specific examples of physician consultants that you've worked with, kind of, what they do, and who pays them for it? Steve: [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, "How to Supplement Your Income with Lucrative Home-Based Work" Okay. Let's go through some of the advantages of being a consultant, and there are many advantages. One of the ones that I like the most is you get to work with very smart people. Okay? And that's one of my favorite things about being [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Life Care Planning Practice" People paid for a medical service in a geographic area based on what providers in the area usually charge for the same or similar medical service is the usual customary and reasonable charge. That's what we're looking for to put in [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Life Care Planning Practice" Next question is medical cost projection. We've discussed this in a number of the other sessions that we've had, but just to give a summary, I think medical cost projections are an alternative to life care planning in a number of [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Life Care Planning Practice" I, again, restate state the problem. Patient status post multiple cervical bulges, has cervical radiculopathy on EMG, and I have a neurosurgical recommendation for surgery. The patient has lumbar disc herniation (inaudible 00:00:15). But we can backtrack (inaudible 00:00:18). The patient [...]
Excerpted from SEAK’s course, “How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Physician Life Care Planning Practice" Let's talk about how to charge. Generally, there are two different ways physicians charge for these life care plans. They either charge by the hour, or they charge by a flat rate. So let's take the flat rate first. Flat rates, [...]