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.
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.
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.
Topics Covered:
(00:00:00) Introduction + Episode Snippet
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(00:01:10) Introducing our special guest, 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.
(00:08:56) 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.
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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
(00:32:57) Become the authority by using your voice.
(00:33:57) We are human beings.
(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
"The more humor you put in the world, the more joy you put in it." – Amanda Hill
"Don't let one bad review worry you. Keep doing good work and keep collecting good reviews." – Dr. Derrick Burgess
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
