As a small business owner, you hit rough spots. You wonder if you’ll really make it to a point that it’s all worth it. You hit highs. You hit some really way down lows. My husband, the Gardener, sent this link to me today and I really needed to hear it.
If you’re a small business owner – you’ll appreciate hearing this too.
Thanks I need that also. It’s not easy being a doctor and small business owner. Actually it’s hard just being a small business owner, but as a doctor there is a perception in the community that I’m obliged to provide a service regardless of a person’s ability to pay for that service. I’min the one industry that discussion of payment is taboo. I prefer to not discuss it and to leave that to the business people in my office for this very reason. However, I wish their was a way to say I’ve done business for 15 years and the first 13 were not profitable. I bankrupted already once and would have had to do it again were it not for my husband taking over the management of my practice. It is not possible in this current healthcare crisis for a doctor to make it and pay their student loans and start up costs without shrewd business sense. If it were not for my husband I could not continue to operate independently. Yet I can not imagine how I could provide a quality of service any other way. Hospital ownership means 15 minute appointment times at the longest. So in the long run my service costs more but I do believe overall the cost is lower than seeing a doctor for 10 minutes that orders lots of expensive consultations with specialists that lead to lots of expensive procedures. But how do you vote for that?