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Physician entrepreneurs need knowledge and multiple skills and abilities to be successful. Knowledge is learning about things, skills are learning how to do things, and abilities are about executing and applying your knowledge and skills. Competencies are measures of your abilities.

With several years of locum tenens work under my belt, I've been witness to some of the best and worst elements of life as a locum.

‘Bioentrepreneurship’ is the pursuit of opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user-defined value through the deployment of biomedical and clinical innovation.

Money can be an emotional matter. Some people spend their whole lives trying to untangle their own money hang-ups. Because you might have been partially drawn to medicine for financial reasons, and because the finances might turn out to be more complex than you had bargained for, it is a good idea to figure out whether you are carrying the burden of sensitive money baggage before it leads to interpersonal conflicts or serious financial mistakes.

I’ve been hearing the terms “educated dumb” and “commonsense is uncommon” frequently lately.

I've noticed a lot of angst and hair pulling deciding the appropriate role of doctors in managing or leading a clinical enterprise. Some doctors see being a physician executive as a

On too many days and in too many ways, we as a nation can’t talk about politics anymore—we can’t find a common ground. A real incivility has taken hold in America.

Biomedical technophiliacs are repeatedly predicting the demise of doctors. They argue that robots and computers will make us obsolete, replacing the core medical roles of thinking, doing and feeling.

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The healthcare landscape is changing fast. For rural health, the transition to value-based healthcare means big changes in retention and recruitment strategies.

We spend 1/3 of our lives and 1/2 million dollars to obtain the privilege of practicing clinical medicine. Before trying to get out of it, perhaps we can figure out ways to be happy staying in clinical medicine.

Locum Tenens opportunities can be a great way to start your career, pad your income mid-career, or work when and where you want as you near your career's end.

Harvard Business School guru Clayton Christensen, of disruption fame, urges us to look at products and services that companies produce as the “job” customers are “hiring” a product or service to do.

I have heard from multiple people that radiologists aren't real doctors. I might have even thought that, too, prior to radiology residency. But having done a PhD and getting exposure to the joys of imaging, I didn’t care going in to it. Then I started radiology residency, and it became crystal clear that not only are radiologists

“There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.” In recent election years, instead of analog tea leaves, financial analysts have turned to deep-diving and number-crunching to not just predict who would win, but also what effect the presidential election might have on our money.