• Negative reviews on Yelp: The Physician perspective

    May 27, 2016

    Your office provides excellent customer service. You offer every arriving patient a cup of coffee, tea or water. They never wait more than [...]

  • Finding and Hiring the Right Employees

    May 25, 2016

    Employee turnover is an unfortunate but inevitable part of running a business. Not only is it costly and time-consuming, it is disruptive [...]

  • A Branded World

    May 25, 2016

    Attention doctor: You are a brand! Did you know the way you talk, walk, and dress are just a few of the [...]

  • Decisions, Decisions…

    May 25, 2016

    The statistics should give us pause. Today’s physicians spend 10.58 hours per week on nonclinical paperwork or 20 percent of our time. [...]

  • 7 Tips to Expand Your Dermatology Social Network

    May 25, 2016

    You can leverage the power of your social media accounts to generate more traffic for your dermatology practice. A significant number of [...]

  • Client Love: Six Rules for Building Solid Gold Relationships

    May 24, 2016

    These days, everyone claims to be in the relationship business, whether auditing your tax return, fixing your roof or leasing you a [...]

  • Bad patient reviews?

    May 19, 2016

    Plenty of physicians are petrified about online ratings. But Marie Olesen, a San Diego-based marketing guru and founder of realpatientratings.com, is advising [...]

  • Is a cash-based model right for you?

    May 11, 2016

    Contracting with third party payers and dealing with government regulations isn’t getting easier. It may seem like every time your practice adjusts [...]

  • A Perfect Pact

    May 6, 2016

    A small business, such as a medical aesthetics practice or medical spa, generally has a razor-thin margin of error. Seemingly insignificant issues can [...]

  • Can I Charge Higher Fees to Uninsured Patients?

    April 8, 2016

    Dr. Cost has a large dermatology practice in an urban Midwestern community that over the last two years, despite the Affordable Care [...]

  • SIMPLE: Staff in Focus

    April 4, 2016

    A surgeon once told me that the hardest part of working with people is working with people. One of thegreatest struggles many [...]

  • Plastic Surgery Patients Report Shorter Wait Times Than Other Patients

    April 4, 2016

    Plastic surgeons had some of the shortest wait times seen among 139 types of specialists, according to Vitals 7th annual wait time [...]