<span itemprop="author">Curtis G. Graham, MD

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An expert’s advice about staying in private medical practice

Most physicians are aware of our nation’s disintegration of private medical practices. Bailing out of private medical practice for financial or other reasons predicts the takeover of government-controlled employed medical practice as well as the …

Why physicians never reach their career potentials

Talk to physicians in private medical practice today, and you will discover that they will affirm that their medical practice is financially satisfactory, stable, and doing well financially. Private practicing physicians know that they have no measurab…

Back to reality when it comes to pain treatment

Back in the 1980s, I had a longtime patient, age about 30, that came to my office for severe back pain. She previously had some mild back pain and had no orthopedic evaluation. Otherwise, she was in good health without any other health issues. She coul…

Financial survival for physicians in private medical practice

There are two valuable reasons why all physicians, especially medical students, should obtain or demand from their medical school academic business education. About 98 percent of physicians and medical students have never had an academic business educa…