The Doctors Mentor® Show: Ideal Medical Practice | Business of Medicine | Entrepreneurship | Exit Strategies | Docgitimacy™

Dr. Draion Burch aka Dr. Drai Ob Gyn, shares his best tips on monetizing your medical degree and creating a career you love. From the trauma of a busy academic practice to the freedom of a concierge practice. As the founder of Medical Moguls Academy, he is helping physicians turn their passion into income generators.

Dr. Sue Ferreira shares the exit strategy she used to leave her Canadian medical practice as a pediatric anesthesiologist and to become a successful video marketer. Her recent viral YouTube video with Gary Vaynerchuk is dissected so other doctors (including anesthesiologists) can plan their own successful exit strategy from a less than ideal medical practice.

April is the month that two major research results are published on audio listening and podcast statistics. Here are the current statistics so you can decide if you are ready to take your next step to launching a profitable podcast.

Whether you are in a medical practice you own, work for a corporation, or are employed by a university, it is imperative that you understand that not all banks and bank accounts are created equal. Why just comb through the mail you have received in your inbox this month…how many offers have you had from financial institutions promising special terms for loans since you are a doctor and other promotions for opening an account. What would you say if I told you there is a bank you deal with daily where you have multiple accounts and yet you may not even be able to tell me the name of the bank?

The summer before I started medical school, required reading for the incoming students was the novel The House of God by Samuel Shem. Inside that novel was a blunt look at the inhumanity of the American medical system. Law Three from The House of God states: "At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse." Here's a variation on the third law that can help you develop the mindset necessary to grow the profitability of your ideal medical practice and to grow as a human being.

Even if you were a business major in college, you may or may not have walked away with a clear understanding of three factors totally under your control as a doctor or other professional that affect both your practice success and your docgitimacy™. Docgitimacy™ is a measure of a doctor's influence and power, perceived credibility, and trustworthiness. Do you have enough docgitimacy™? Stay tuned as we discover three factors you can control that can help you get more docgitimacy™.

Have you ever had a feeling you ought to get in touch with someone and later you reflect back and feel really glad that you did? That somehow, your mind tapped into universal truth at that moment and nudged you to do something that made a difference? Today let's talk about flexing a mental muscle that sometimes we, as doctors, totally ignore. God forbid that I as your mentor would ever allow you to let one of your mental muscles atrophy just because you have dedicated your life to helping others as a doctor! Do you know which mental muscle I am talking about?

Find out what determines the success of both medical research project design and podcast planning. Is it how much money is backing your project or show? Is it how much time you have to devote to either? Is it all about who you know? It is really about only one thing, your understanding, and implementation of asking the right questions.

From an interview with Lolis Babb, discover how John Henry McDonald directs his thoughts to create his desired outcomes in his 21-Day Vision Quest. Take the word of Steven Pressfield when resistance shows up and you will be well on your way to creating a slice of life that you can fully enjoy. If you want next year to be better than this year, this is a way to achieve what you desire.

In episode 17 of The Doctor's Mentor Show, Dr. Lori Barr covered what to do before attending a medical meeting to maximize personal and practice influence, this episode shares tips on what to do during and after the meeting to follow through on what you started so that both you and your group get your desired outcomes.