Private Practice

In this podcast episode, Tamara Duker Freuman, MS, RD, CDN, discusses how the work of gastroenterologists and dieticians can inform each other, approaching GI conditions as new science emerges and more.

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In a Healio video exclusive, Anjuli Luthra, MD, said when negotiating a contract in a private practice, women in gastroenterology need to focus on all valuable aspects of a practice, not just salary.

In this commentary, I will share a few thoughts targeted to the young ophthalmologist about to start practice. I will focus on core advice I have found useful for anterior segment fellows at Minnesota Eye Consultants.

MILAN — After a course on practice management at the ESCRS meeting, Pavel Stodulka, MD, PhD, speaks about the importance of taking care of employees.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — A private equity transaction may make sense for an orthopedic private practice that finds it increasingly difficult to reduce costs and increase revenue in today’s financial and health care environment, a speaker said.

In this issue, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Raymond Fink, MD, about preparing for retirement. Fink retired in the spring from the San Diego-area private endocrinology practice he co-owned since 1986. He now has more time for reading, studying and teaching at his local synagogue and for longer family trips with his wife, Rhona, a recently retired primary care physician.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Being proactive when preparing for transition of leadership is “mandatory” for the ongoing success of a health care organization, according to a presenter at GI Outlook.

“The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.”

Capital Digestive Care did not go the route of private equity, but it did go the route of a strategic partner.