Why Most Doctors Cant Manage Their Practice Successfully

Looking for the answer to this question can not be far fetch. One only need to look at the kind of training every medical person went through as a medical student, then you will see the answer steering you in the face. Are you still confused? Don't be, Doctors are never taught to think like business-people, Medical person is forever at war with becoming a Business person.

That is why most medical practitioners, no matter whom they are: doctor, dentist, pharmacist, and so on, all build their so called business on their set skills. Thinking that the fact that they are skilled at what they do they can run the business that runs that practice, which is far from the truth. That is why they only build a practice instead of a business. Let us see how these play out, and how these affect you.

Running a successful business involves your ability to manage your business resources effectively which include material and human. But what do the doctor do, they face the issue of managing badly. Sometimes when they do they end up abdicating responsibility while they focus on the practice which is also a wrong solution. Every medical person i have had the opportunity of relating with never actually saw themselves as a manager, but only a doctor. Even when they do try to manage, they manage the wrong thing, the people instead of the system.

Management has far less to do with people than you've been made to believe. As you probably already know, people are almost impossible to manage. What’s more, they are unpredictable, unchangeable, irrepressible and generally impossible. Rather than managing people, management is really all about managing a process, a step-by-stem way of doing things, which, combined with other processes, becomes a system. 

More to come later, but for now hang on to this and am sure it will help you very much. Have this article been of help to you? Please drop your comments, thanks.

Joy Akinlolu.