Why did I leave the university and return to private practice?
- Quality
- Doing the best job possible.
- Teaching
- I enjoy my time with residents, medical students and other groups wanting to learn. Now I do it on volunteer time.
- Opportunity
- Politics made leaving quite simple.
- Original thinking?
- “No one at the university will tell you how to practice.” said the professor who recruited me to the university.
- The fine print that I didn’t hear was “If you don’t do it our way, we’ll see to it that you leave!”
- Maximum capacity
- Each day I learn more about voice disorders. My patients seem extremely appreciative of this interest of mine.
- Supply and demand
- Subspecialists in voice remain a small group. Many patients have a voice.
- Managed care
- Though I am back dealing with them, I do have a commodity that they have little of - subspecialization.
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