Health Care Professionals Group

Compared to chiropractors, do medical doctors have work very hard to recruit patients for their business?

In order for a chiropractor to be successful, he/she also needs to be a good business person. The chiropractors that do well financially are 1) business owners, and 2) really good at marketing and bringing lots of new patients into their practice. I was wondering if medical doctors also need to worry much about the business aspect of their practice, or if "having enough patients to treat" is something they never think about. Do MDs need to be business owners in order to make a decent living? Or do most of them function as employees?

Public Comments

1. ANY private practice practitioner has a battle on their hands - getting patients, and keeping patients. Until you are firmly established, you deal with it. MDs and any other allied professional is a business owner, and as soon as you have to pay bills and payroll, you get that. You have to have some marketing initiative, or hire someone who does.
2. Move to florida theres tons of old people...but theres a dr on every corner..lol When you are taking out loans as most people do to go to school if you work in rural area for a couple years I would make it in my contract for them to pay off my loans. As for worrying over practice you will have to if you are in private.If you work for hospital or group.Then most of it is done for you.(where you function as employee.
3. In a new practice the doctors still have to work hard to build more of a reputation than anything. Once word gets around that the doctor is good, they have a much easier time getting patients than a Chiropractor would. Its just the initial reputation that would be similar. It's a western society thing. People only go to doctors in western society when they are sick. As the population currently has such poor health, doctors are always going to be more popular than Chiropractors.