Take extra care to make a colleague's patients feel welcome
Effective Mar 1, 2008
Published Mar 1, 2008
As discussed in the January PPS, baby boomer physicians are increasingly cutting back their workloads as they approach retirement. Although part-time physicians still offer your practice tremendous value, it's often up to the remaining physicians to pick up the slack. Redistributing a retired or semiretired doctor's patients can be challenging for all parties involved. For starters, physicians seldom give the practice enough notice of their slowdown or departure to plan for a smooth transition, says Neil Baum, MD, a urologist in New Orleans. "It is usually done by the seat of the pants, and then they stamp out forest fires and crises as they occur. As a result, instead of getting 100% of the existing patients staying within the practice, there's a loss sometimes of 50%-60%."
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