22 suggestions for plastic surgeons who have opened clinic recently
- Appoint an experienced financial advisor, consultant, lawyer/attorney, design/software specialist
- Your secretary is your voice on your phone, your assistant and sometimes your conductor. A secretary is actually an assistant.
- Prepare a range of values letter/paper for yourself and hang it on an apparent place/surface. Update this legal, conscientious, professional, ethical manifesto but follow these codes absolutely.
- Be professional and gentleman at all times and conditions with your patients, employer, secretary and most importantly yourself.
- Don’t forget to constantly update your general professional knowledge. Say yourself that you are going to be the best (firstly in the city you live, then in the country and then in the world), choose a topic/field that you interest in and gain experience about it and work on it. Follow the firs 3 people in our country and in the world who have full knowledge of the field/subject, and contact with them.
- You should have website, business/personal card and stamp. Also, you should have letterhead stationery and envelope. Work with the most equipped and professional hospital in your area. Your preference will reflect you.
- You should have an experienced colleague who you will consult when you are not sure to decide. An honest, reliable consultant who will give second opinion. When you believe that you are experienced and have knowledge about the subject, you give this support to another person/colleague unconditionally. For a plastic surgeon who has just opened clinic, the master-apprentice relationship is significant.
- Don’t compare yourself to other colleagues, just focus on your project and carry it out. (See: codes)
- Your assistant or someone who you choose should explain money or fee issues to the patients. Advance payment, payment in installments, payment on credit card etc. You focus on your profession and expertise area. Your assistant should do transactions/procedures about examination fee, invoice, signature for consent form, photograph, sound recording etc.
- Be careful/pay attention to your image, your words, the genre and volume of the music in your workroom, your intonation etc. When the patient is there, your clinic has become a place that “someone is watching us” home.
- Put yourself an implementable target. You should have growth targets about profession, commercial and experience. Try to ensure that your procedures are sufficient in 5 categories: 1. Surgical procedures 2. Non-surgical day case procedures 3. Device procedures 4. Hair transplantation 5. Health tourism. Put 1-year,3-year and 5-year targets on these issues, follow-up and update.
- Take courses and trainings in order to gain experience about clinic management and workplace management.
- You are expected to be in a close and professional relationship with the following people about your procedures/practices: Aesthetician, nutritionist, exercise specialist, Dental Aesthetician, psychologist, anesthesiologist and nurse.
- Do not take risk in your clinic by performing risky, long-lasting hygiene-required surgeries. “One wrong eliminates all correct” in the clinic.
- The money you earn or the car you bought does not indicate that you are successful on your profession. Medicine is an art, the following criteria are the clues for real and permanent success:
Small gestures and sympathetic gifts from your patients
Receiving positive opinions and comments
Bring a friend to your clinic (more clicks than recommendation/suggestion)
Asking you about doctors who are in the different expertise area
Peace at home, peace at work
Make time for yourself and your family
Asking your colleagues to give opinion on professional or special issues
- Do not try to break record or in the operating room, carefully perform the operations/procedures as if every operation/procedure was a jubilee, or was your last operation. Give value to your assistants who help you in the operating room.
- Regardless of conditions, never make concessions on your health, sleep, sports, family, child and nutrition.
- Avoid someone who are always negative and unhappy, you will be contaminated. Alcohol consumption leads to an atmosphere of similar emotion, the antidote is field sports. In my own experience, the most ideal form for a plastic surgeon is reinforcing sport, the crossfit, and the ideal music for the surgery and clinic is Mahler.
- Have siesta in your workplace, taking nap for 25-30 minutes in a place without light corresponds to rest, regeneration and attention that you get 40-minute cardio. This procedure (nap capsule) is almost standard in airports, multinational corporations.
- Become a blogger, expressing yourself by writing is the stand-by mode of the mind, which relax you to discharge. Also, learn astrology and follow-up actively. When the moon is in the space and Venus retrogrades, try not to operate, because you will not get efficiency. For instance; what is Sade-sati? you should absolutely learn
- Do not be a perfectionist looking for perfection in your work environment and operating room, it causes unnecessary stress and depression. Quite the contrary, you should always be ready with your best mind at the mental and physical level.
- The actual patients are different from the client or advisee. Keep in mind that patients have psychological layers as well as biological, and that you should find answers to the questions for those layers. Always be careful for people who have body dysmorphic disorder and look for an inexperienced plastic surgeon for cheap procedure.
Wish you success
