While most doctors have great clinical skills, we often don't learn to manage our practice very well . Even though every clinic is a small business, and every doctor is an entrepreneur who needs to earn a profit in order to provide high-quality medical care to his patients, we are never taught any business skills. This is why we often end up trying to do everything ourselves. We want to be in control of everything, and our medical training teaches us to be the captain of the ship, and to take responsibility for everything we do.
We become expert micromanagers, and are very uncomfortable delegating duties to a receptionist or assistant. In fact, most doctors don't even have an administrative assistant, because they feel that they are incompetent. This often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy . Because they are not willing to invest the amount of money needed to get a good secretary or…
