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As the Chief Medical Officer of We’re Simply the Best Medical Center, allow me to be the first to wish you a Happy Doctors Day. During these times of turbulent change, I have received several of your letters expressing your heartfelt concerns about the changing face of medicine and how it has affected you personally… Read more »

Like anxious parents awaiting the new arrival, investors, regulators, and entrepreneurs are anxious about the birth of equity crowd funding, which is set to launch in May.– See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/the-birth-of-equity-crowd-funding#sthash.HjfvR1a4.dpuf

Doctors and physician entrepreneurs are dealing with a lot of change and typically use three ways to cope: – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/change-how-you-change#sthash.ZVG7iZbv.dpuf

As a career academic surgeon, I was trained, like all my colleagues, under an apprenticeship educational system that dates back to the guilds of the Middle Ages. – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/to-teach-entrepreneurship-see-one-do-one-teach-one#sthash.nvZUlMpo.dpuf

Biological ecosystems are similar to innovation ecosystems. They both are composed of elements that work in harmony to achieve a balance. – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/the-ecology-of-innovation#sthash.VrGPbCl1.dpuf

If you are like most patients, you are confused about where to go for care when you think you have a sick-care problem. The menu is getting increasingly confusing and making the wrong choice can not only be bad for your health, but devastating to your bank account.  – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/a-patients-guide-to-the-growing-menu-of-healthcare-options#sthash.QMbSKgX3.dpuf

Doctors are taught to be diagnosticians. They are not supposed to just treat symptoms. Given the fact that medicine is an art, sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don’t. We are making that mistake trying to fix our sick-care system. – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/fixing-healthcare-stop-treating-the-symptoms-instead-of-the-disease#sthash.1hjHYJ29.dpuf

Here is how someone recently responded to one of my posts entitled “Where are all the entrepreneurial doctors?” “Entrepreneurial medical doctors are anomalies. Medical schools, medical training programs, medical boards and authorities, medical communities, medical doctors and patients themselves weed out any doctor who has entrepreneurial spirit or tendency. People expect doctors to be rich… Read more »

Given all the complaining by doctors about change, it comes as no surprise that medical students are having self-doubts and questioning their career choices. I interact with all kinds of students at various stages of their undergraduate and graduate careers and they seem to fall into three categories—those that can’t wait to get into the game,… Read more »

Did you take your medicine the right way for the prescribed time the last time your doctor wrote you a prescription? If you did, you are in the minority. – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/arlen-meyers-md-mba/2016/03/prescription-non-adherence-a-bitter-pill-to-swallow#sthash.imzNvxDb.dpuf