How to Guard Your Practice with Amanda Hill

Doctors play a crucial role in safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients. However, it is also essential for doctors to guard their practice since medical practices are complex businesses and managing finances can be challenging. Consequently, protecting your practice from fraud, theft, or other financial crimes is essential to ensure you can continue providing quality care to your patients.

Additionally, clinicians need to guard their practice by protecting their contracts. Medical practice contracts include employment agreements, partnership agreements, and other legal arrangements. These contracts determine the terms and conditions of the practice's operations, financial responsibilities, and ownership. Thus, it is advantageous for healthcare professionals to seek help from lawyers committed to giving them the resources they need to protect the practice they've built from contracts and agreements before binding those to their lives for the next couple of years. Therefore, it is essential to preserve such agreements to avoid any disputes or conflicts, protect their rights, and maintain their practice's financial stability.

Amanda B. Hill is a well-known and respected healthcare attorney in Austin, TX. With more than 20 years of experience practicing healthcare law and coaching and training doctors in patient satisfaction and leadership, Amanda is uniquely positioned to assist doctors with their most pressing and essential issues. Amanda built Guard My Practice because she saw a need – doctors want to feel safe and protected in their businesses but aren't 100% sure how to stay out of trouble. She's seen it all and helped others get through it. Her passion is becoming a partner and trusted confidant to medical groups and doctors to help them navigate through uncertainty and toward peace.

In this special episode with Amanda Hill, we will learn about the passion of an empowered woman in advocating for healthcare professionals and vesting them education concerning contracts and how to protect themselves from the unexpected. Be inspired by the life and vision of Amanda, who made it her personal goal to provide medical practitioners security, protection, and confidence to know that their practice is operating in the best and safest way possible.

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(00:00:00) Introduction + Episode Snippet

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(00:01:10) Introducing our special guest, Amanda Hill.

(00:01:45) The Journey of Becoming a Lawyer: Who is Amanda Hill?

(00:03:32) The passion for helping our healers

(00:04:48) Empowering doctors with education.

(00:06:22) Contracts have their language.

(00:07:07) Contract's back door: How to get out of contracts?

(00:08:56) You must refrain from buying into unreviewed promises.

(00:10:33) Medical professionals must not appear powerless.

(00:11:52) Why Amanda started her company?

(00:12:39) The fear of the unknown

(00:13:15) The need to be sure of yourself.

(00:14:56) The compensation: How can it be misleading for an applicant?

(00:18:21) Can't stand vagueness.

(00:20:15) How long is the Contract? How to get out of it?

(00:21:41) Highlighting potential future problems.

(00:24:00) What is the prevailing stance concerning non-compete agreements?

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(00:27:23) The Birth of Guard My Practice: How can people utilize it?

(00:30:19) Turning Stories into a Video Training: Helping doctors succeed

(00:32:29) Entrepreneurship is about solving people's problems.

(00:32:57) Become the authority by using your voice.

(00:33:57) We are human beings.

(00:35:12) Doctors and lawyers are driven to the point of insanity.

(00:36:47) How to handle bad reviews?

(00:37:55) Responding with respect for other viewers' sake.

(00:40:29) Bad reviews get buried eventually.

(00:41:55) A board complaint against a doctor.

(00:44:27) Final TimeOut with Amanda Hill: What did Amanda have to overcome to be in the profession that she is today?

(00:45:00) Trusting your vision.

(00:46:18) Everybody has a unique story.

(00:47:07) Where to connect with Amanda Hill.

Key Takeaways:  

"I like to make my clients look good, and that's my job is to be in the background, helping them out by reading their contract." – Amanda Hill

"Many times, we don't want to feel like an idiot, so we stay quiet, and that's the worst thing we can do when we're dealing with contracts." – Amanda Hill

"The most important thing on the contract is how to get out of it because we don't know what we don't know until it's too late." – Dr. Derrick Burgess

"Every contract you sign, you have to be able to get out of because things change so much in your career." – Amanda Hill

"You just can't buy into promises. You have to have contracts to protect you in a way out because so many things may change." – Amanda Hill

"Think about the fact that in five years, your life might look a lot different now." – Amanda Hill

"I don't like to see doctors feeling helpless." – Amanda Hill

"I'm trying to back up a little bit and try to talk to doctors again about starting their practice, but do it in a way that can set them up for success." – Amanda Hill

"I became passionate about preventing the problems instead of just being on the back end and cleaning up the messes. And so, I want to change the tide. I want doctors to start opening up their practices again and not be scared." – Amanda Hill

"It's hard to be the expert that if people go to you, you have to be sure of yourself, and that's hard because they trust you and your guidance." – Amanda Hill

"If you don't know how you're getting paid, then you're just blind, and they can pay you anything. And what I can't stand is vagueness." – Amanda Hill

"You need to have the big-ticket items, which are usually termination clause compensation and non-compete, which are the things that bind you after you leave." – Amanda Hill

"The more humor you put in the world, the more joy you put in it." – Amanda Hill

"Entrepreneurship is about solving people's problems. So, the more problems you can solve, the more money you're going to make." – Dr. Derrick Burgess

"Make a video about people's questions and concerns because that's the way that you can become the authority by using your voice and reproducing it so more people can hear it." – Amanda Hill

"I want doctors to cut themselves some slack. I don't think people understand the day of the life of a doctor because when they come in, they want their full attention." – Amanda Hill

"Doctors and lawyers are driven to the point of insanity. We want to be good at everything we do, and when a patient doesn't like us, it sets our whole day." – Amanda Hill

"We are in a slap-happy complaining culture right now. I don't know why we're going through this little phase in our lifespan where Everybody complains about everything, and I think that consumers realize that for every ten great reviews, you're going to have a bad one." – Amanda Hill

"Don't let one bad review worry you. Keep doing good work and keep collecting good reviews." – Dr. Derrick Burgess

"It's tough to have these complaints against you, and you just have to separate yourself from it and go." – Amanda Hill

"We have to tell each other to trust your vision when we're in the throes of the bad situation." – Amanda Hill

"Everybody has a story, but it's not your story. So, I encourage people to share their stories because your story will be told one way or the other. Either you give your version or other people will interpret what they think so." – Amanda Hill

Connect with Amanda Hill: 

Website: https://www.guardmypractice.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guardmypractice

Twitter: https://twitter.com/guardmypractice

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guardmypractice/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/guardmypractice/

Connect with Dr. Derrick Burgess:

Website: https://www.drderrickthesportsdr.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drderrickthesportsdr/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeOut.SportsDr

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrick-burgess-72047b246/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGDu1zT4K_X6PnYELu8weg

Email: thesportsdoctr@gmail.com

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