Suddenly Solo Enhanced: 12 Steps to Achieving Your Own Totally Independent Health Care Practice

Dr. Schoor lists a clear, objective (your feelings don't matter!) and simple approach at building some sort of practice, and shares his personal experiences with the reader about doing the same, but I'm not sure that it's applicable to most physician readers of medical business management books.Dr. Schoor is a urologist, and like most specialists, probably makes most of his money off of hospital work. Most specialists, therefore, have to be hospital affiliated, with the attendant business support. Although he makes passing references to "what a family doctor or general internist needs," his suggestions really aren't practical for generalists (who, like me, are probably the ones that most need this book).He states that if he had to do it all over again (paraphrasing), he'd get a free google phone number, online fax service, free EMR system, and rent clinic space and staff a couple of days a week, with his only equipment being an ultrasound machine, laptop, and network enabled printer.That's great if you see a half dozen patients a day, don't have to deal with insurance prior authorizations or formulary restrictions (for which I currently employ a full time employee!), or are bound by "meaningful use." But what happens if, like most generalist FPs, internists or peds you have to see 2-3 dozen patients a day, with patients calling in at the same time for refills or appointments, you have to print an AVS for each visit, or have to deal with "behind the scenes" costs such as overtime?The answer: he doesn't tell you. This is a quick read, and is worth the cost of purchase if only for its disruptive approach in regards to utilizing modern technology when you can, but if you're actually looking to establish your own practice and you're in any capacity other than a surgical subspecialist only seeing patients a couple of half days per week, you need to look elsewhere.

For the price, you might balk at first. This is the second, 'revised' edition and it is fairly different from the first. I won't give away the highlights but let's say there are some "if I had only done that first" groaners in the book which luckily, you get to read about instead of make the same mistake. I bought this and a couple of other books but this one is START PRACTICE BY FOLLOWING THESE STEPS EXACTLY. The others were more philosophical. While you need a bit of both, this is the cut and dry version. Too expensive for the size but not for the content. Be ready to sink a few thousand dollars into your startup or just don't buy this book.

Over the hour it takes to read this book the author gives the Nuts and Bolts of minimizing expenses and career endinig financial decisions that can plague someone going into solo practice, or even someone just lookin to decrease their overhead. Many of the items listed in the book were things I had never knew existed or I didnt think I could changeI found it similar in style to Marc Cuban's Book "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It" . In the mire of books on practivce management, this makes a "clear-cut" path to follow.I loved it

I think Dr. Schoor gives the reader the important steps to starting a medical practice. I also feel he has the reader examine one's own conscious to really makes sure that going into Solo Practice is for them. Dr. Schoor is forthright and revealing of his own personal journey which led him to Solo Practice and the Joys of being a Solo practitioner. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to start their own practice. The author is even accessible by email, I wrote him and he immediately wrote me back. It is clear to see why he is a successful in Solo practice.

Simply outstanding. Concise, easy to read, and full of valuable content. One of the best books on how to start a solo medical practice. Dr. Schoor has written a short book that will give one direction (organization of steps on how to start a practice and what to avoid) which can save thousands of dollars on expenses of getting started. Also gives straightforward advice on many other aspects. Bottom line: if one is thinking of opening a medical practice, get and read this book first!

pretty basic book that didn't have a lot of useful information for someone who's been around the block a time or 2. It might be helpful for a resident who has no clue what private practice is like, but I certainly wouldn't buy this again.

Do not waste any money on this 'book'. These are the worst 12 steps to starting your own solo practice--two of the steps are to 'Get a Phone Number' and to 'Get a website'. All steps are common sense and are explained in a 'blog-style' manner. In the 30 minutes it took to read this book cover-to-cover, I found no useful information. Wish I could get my money back.

I've been practicing for 10 years and am looking to open my own practice. I was hoping this would offer the skeleton of a business plan. It is extremely basic and was not helpful in the slightest. Each chapter is a few pages long and recommends things like, "Make a website", "Obtain EMR", etc. I promtly returned it.