Book Description

If you find you are suffering from burn out and/or are not enjoying the practice of medicine as much as in the past, if you have a contracting population base, if you are receiving fewer referrals from other colleagues this year than you were two years ago, or if managed care has moved your existing patients to another health care provider, then this book is for you. Marketing Your Clinical Practice, Third Edition can help you sculpt the kind of practice you want, target a desirable patient population, and get more of a handle on your business. This book will provide you with hundreds of marketing ideas that can be inexpensively implemented and that you can start using immediately. And when you do, you will find that you have happier patients, a more enthusiastic staff, and greater personal satisfaction.This book is full of simple techniques that have been tested and that work. It discusses each of the five component pillars of a successful practice and provides examples from an existing private practice on how to attract new patients, how to develop the loyalty and bonding of patients already in your practice, and how to keep staff members motivated, organized, and dedicated to caring for your patients. Put simply, after reading this guide, you will have all of the tools and resources necessary to effectively, ethically, and economically market your practice.