A satellite clinic to improve cash flow and lessen/increase doc stress?
We just back from a mini Labor day Las Vegas tour. Poor me, I lost couple hundreds and my thinking of let my doc quit for a while and coming back working part time did not come through. However travel in style, staying at penthouse suite on 37 floor of a five star hotel. Most the time we are not that extreme, for instance another CME coming up in October, still in Las Vegas but special rate for docs, 50 bucks a night, lowest class rooms!!! How is that...
My doc got home and fell ill, I forgot where I parked my car and had to call for Airport parking service. They came and drove me around and finally found it, a high end car but stupid, it needs to know when boss get lost, even that he parked at a different parking lot. DFW airport is huge, A,B,C,D,E terminals, each has it own multiple parking garages. Departured at A terminal, but arrived at C terminal and Labor day two first parking lots of A were full. My doc knows me so well so she did write down where i parked but I lost that note!!!
A good exercise for a 'young' senior citizen, I walked two parking garages, up and down multiple times. Most man doesn't want to give up that easily. But I had to. Too much stress already and two day vacation causes even more stress. We had to reschedule full load of patients for another day. Charts and labs built up again.
I am thinking of open another satellite clinic but read a couple posts about the AC weakness. How about a centralized call center and recruit a newly mint doc. Luckily to break even first year, but things should get better in a couple years for a 'under served' smaller town, then my doc can have a partner and we can take longer vacations.
