The E-Myth Physician: Why Most Medical Practices Don't Work and What to Do about It

by Michael E. Gerber

Book Overview

Michael E. Gerber, bestselling author of The E-Myth Revisited shares his powerful insights to lead independent physicians to successful practices and enriched lives. Michael Gerber has dedicated much of his professional life to the study of entrepreneurship and business dynamics. His E-Myth Academy is renown in the entrepreneurial world for its business insight and guidance as well as its inspirational advice. In the E-Myth Physician , bestselling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060938404
• ISBN13: 9780060938406
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

"Words To Live By"

The E-Myth Physician was on target, and not only about physicians, but also all doctors, including, veterinarians, dentists and other medical professionals.I strongly recommend this book and have to several friends who are doctors. I recommend it because it pegs so many doctors and health care professionals and why they often lead unfulfilling careers and lives.I started incorporating what I've learned from E-Myth last February 2001 when I enrolled in The E-Myth Mastery Program. I can relate to Keith and Susan very well because like me, my father is also a veterinarian and I have experienced many of the same things they related in their story. Even though I recognize the same pattern because I have lived it, I often have difficulty not falling into the same unfulfilling trap. That is why I am working daily on E-Myth Mastery to help my family and myself have a life outside of my career.Chapter 12 on the subject of work has had a big impact on the way I think about my business. "Work is the cause of obsessive-compulsive behaviors by doctors. Work. You've got to do it every single day. Work. If you fall behind you'll pay for it. Work. There is either too much or not enough." -from page 97 of The E-Myth Physician.The E-Myth philosophy stresses the importance of the need of working on your practice and not just working in it to achieve equity and something that lives without me. It gives me a visual way to realize my goals and a way to build each level on a solid foundation and systems that work in my business. It is excellent because by managing the process in a medical business is the only way I can find peace in my life and prevent career burnout as I mature in my profession.

This should be mandatory reading for Docs.

With medicine headed for a meltdown and physician dissatisfaction and burnout at staggering levels, this book could not come at a better time. I read this and felt renewed hope that there is a better way to approach that thing we call a practice and turn it into what we dreamed it would be. Michael Gerber does not give a canned strategy for success because there is no such thing. Instead he teaches you to reinvent your practice according to your desires. He gives you the tools but it is up to you to put them to good use. Read it and dream. Then read it again and do. I see it as a ray of hope in an otherwise dark time for medicine.

Great Book

Mr. Gerber looks at business differently than any other business help writer I have read. He looks at the business on a strategic level, and not down at the day to day operations level. His philosophy is not only amazing, it really works. Unlike most "help" books, Mr. Gerber points out that the business owner has to figure out where the business is going and what it needs to accomplish, before figuring out how to do that. This is a fundamental shift in thinking, but once the shift is understood, it makes a tremendous amount of sense! The book is easily understandable, exciting, and really gets your attention if you are frustrated with how your company operates. Don't get bogged down in the examples Mr. Gerber gives - I am sure you could insert many other examples, but look at the point he makes. I highly recommend this book if you are struggling as a medical professional and want to honestly look at a better way to do things. It is a great introduction to "The E-Myth Revisited" which is also a must read.

Amazing insights

Anyone who is currently in practice or is considering doing medicine should read this book. Unfortunately one is never taught at medical school the fundamentals of running a medical practice profitably. Doctors erroneously believe that because they are good at medicine or surgery or paediatrics, they will necessarily believe that they are able to run a practice well. This couldn't be further from the truth. Gerber, in an insightful work, manages to expose many of the pitfalls in running a medical practice. I can only say from personal experience that initially, one gets validation from medicine because you are working at the coalface - doing the work of a doctor. Eventually, it dawns on you that you don't in fact have a life - you have effectively bought yourself a job. Every chapter has nuggets that have resulted in a multitude of paradigm shifts in my strategic thinking towards my practice. If you are happy doing the work of a technician and working 80 hour weeks for 50 weeks of the year, don't read this book. If you are seeking something better from practicing medicine, I would suggest reading this book in conjunction with The E-Myth Revisited - Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it. I would also suggest reading the Robert Kiyosaki books, which will give you another lucid perspective on the pitfalls of being in a profession.

He did it again!

In the line of the E-myth & the E-Myth manager, Michael Gerber does it again. Being a Physician from Buenos Aires, Argentina, it's amazing how the problems are similar in every western country and the solutions are right there in the face of any thinking person. This book while written in very simple languaje is painfully deep. And I mean painfully, because I had to change in my practice everything I was taught (or not) from Medical School to now. Moving away from the technician's point of view is the most important thing that had happened to my in my work life. Don't just read it study it!!