Doctors Are Seeking Out More Challenging Medical Practices

Doctors Are Seeking Out More Challenging Medical Practices
One day a doctor made the decision to move from his thriving medical practice to the corporate world. Being a doctor became boring, in his recollection. He felt that patients only expected him to talk and listen. His group practice was forced to abandon the very things he enjoyed about medicine, from complex medical problems to obstetrics and surgery, due to the high cost of malpractice insurance. His practice had turned into little more than a stopping point for the patient ultimately destined for a specialist.

This doctor exchanged his place in a group practice to become the assistant medical development director for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in New Jersey. Many bored physicians have found their desired challenge in the corporate world and more are following this example. The race for research grants, academic politics, the intrusion by insurance companies and government into the field of medicine, and the stresses of private practice are all reasons cited by physicians for why they left private practice. There is one city that is eager to improve employee health and the safety of their products which is quick to hire such disenchanted doctors. The majority are still employed in the medical realm, some in occupational health advisory roles, some in pharmaceutical research, though business has emerged has having more appeal for some than medicine does.

It appears what this city offers is equal to that of a successful private practice. Benefits of these new corporate positions include regular hours with vacation time, teaching and study opportunities, company paid malpractice insurance and benefit packages that can equal the practitioner's salary.

Although there are thousands of full time corporate M.D's in the U.S, they equal under 2% of the entire physician population. You can also find many physicians who specialize in occupational therapy who have found their calling as overseers. Well over ten thousand additional physicians work part-time in similar jobs. There are plenty of physicians working for insurance companies, as claims consultants and many in the pharmaceutical sphere.

Positions with large insurance companies as medical directors are among the most common for these doctors. One doctor decided to take on a part time role working for a chain restaurant, simply because he wanted to make a little bit of extra money. He found himself working at an incredible pace, often examining one food handler every minute or 60 every hour. This particular physician later took a position as medical director for two movie studios and left private practice altogether. He was happy to do so because the opportunities working for the studios were vast, preventative medicine was important and because the patients did not need to pay there was no limit on how he could treat them.

Many private physicians see themselves as automatons faced with ever-increasing obstacles in their quest for a viable business. They were considered to be a doctor who did no more than put band aids, gave out aspirin, and worked with people who were healthy. In recent times, however, the corporate physician has gained more respect than ever because of a change in pace. The director of medicine at a large New York telecommunications firm states that achieving a new level of respect has been gratifying.

Younger doctors will probably find the salary/benefit packages allow them to do as well as or better than they might otherwise do. Older doctors can usually afford to sacrifice gross and net income for the benefits of corporate medicine. The improvement in the overall quality of life outweighs any loss of net income they have have agreed to. In the past private practice doctors looked down on occupational medicine. These days however it is becoming something well worth getting involved with.

Those who left the trappings of a private practice doctor behind are the ones now pulling in the biggest incomes. It's possible one of the most well known doctors is a multimillionaire at the age of 78, and never did get around to practicing medicine. As a matter of fact, he made his first million dollars while still in medical school, because he saved his father's drug company from collapse. Upon graduation, this doctor purchased a surplus army field hospital and administered to the Ural Mountain region of the former Soviet Union where the populace was afflicted by famine. It was there that he discovered it was food, instead of medicine, that was most needed so he began importing grain and making new trade contacts that turned out to be steps into his new career.


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