Scams Targeting Medical Residents.
Have you been targeted by a scamster. Chances are you were and you didn’t even know. Here I am going to list some common scams, medical residents may become a target of. Many of these attempts I have personally experienced or seen someone else get into.
1) WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE: When I was a medical resident, [...]
Danger Lurks Around With Every Signature!
The truckload of documents on my table every single day waiting to be signed. Some are prescription refills, other are papers from the scooter people and not to mention those requests for prior authorization. Now if you have the same story there is a lot of risk hiding in those papers.
No doctor has time to [...]
How to negotiate with medical vendors.
How should we negotiate with Medical Vendors. When you have your own medical practice and you will have to buy medical equipments and or Medical Services, you will find salesmen and coming in droves to your medical office to sell you almost anything under the sun.
Any time that you have to buy an equipment or [...]
Buying Medical Equipment for your practice: Caution Advised !
If you own or run a medical practice, or plan to do so, one of the most frequent decision you will have to make is whether or not to buy or lease a medical equipment. As the cost of technology is going down, more and more medical equipment is becoming affordable for medical practices to [...]
Starting a Medical Practice: Learning Small Business
I was discussing this with a general surgeon yesterday. We both agreed that the biggest deficit physicians have is not ‘how to run a medical practice’ but ‘how to run a small business’. I believe the residency programs and medical schools should incorporate basic business training to all would be physicians.
Why should you learn these [...]
FRAUD ALERT: Medispa business for physicians
For several reasons we physicians are an easy target for scamsters. We as physicians trust people easily, we have money (may not be the truth anymore), we are poor businessmen (Finally lets admit it– we never were trained in business). So I have decided to add FRAUD ALERT to this website. We will try to [...]
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