Author: Doug Farrago

I am a physician and retired from clinical practice.  My happiest times were very early in my employed career and then my last six years doing Direct Primary Care.   I thoroughly discussed the former in my book The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating A Physician-Friendly Environment Is Critical For Your Organization’s Success. It was a place where…
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Every business is taught that it is more financially rewarding to keep your regular customers than to accrue new ones. Unfortunately, that does not trickle down to the treatment of their employees. This two-year old survey found: Barriers to improving retention Despite 87 percent of overall respondents calling improved retention a critical or high priority over the…
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Read this article from INC magazine. Yes, it is from a different industry but that is what healthcare needs to do, which is to learn from others. “The primary focus of a sales business should be on the employee experience rather than customer relations because happy employees provide the best customer service.” How many physicians…
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I always like to see what other industries are doing to retain their employees. For some reason, the healthcare system loves to ignore the fact that doctors are human and there are things that can be done to make them happier. One of those things that I mention in my book is COMMUNITY.  Here is an interesting take from…
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Watch the short video to see why you need to hire someone who just focuses on physician RETENTION and not recruiting. Ask yourself, would a physician recruiter care about your physician retention? They would be out of a job if they did.

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The Healthcare Leadership Experience: Doug Farrago Physician Retention https://lnkd.in/dABu_sGr The Healthcare Leadership Experience is hosted by Lisa Miller for health leaders who want to think differently and learn how to improve their performance. In this episode, Lisa was joined by Douglas Farrago MD, to discuss his new book on physician retention and why it’s critical for hospitals. Topics include…
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Here is a lesson on how NOT to retain your doctors. This week is National Physician’s Week but this really revolves around Doctor’s Day, which is a real thing. You may think this is a bogus holiday or occasion but it isn’t. For those who don’t know how it started, here goes: On March 30th,…
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There is a difference between physicians and nondoctors. Interestingly, everyone wants the doctor title but all this does is confuse patients. Yes, the cover image is real. No, Taylor Swift is not a real doctor. This is a conversation that occurred right here on LinkedIn. It was in regards to hospitals lumping nondoctors together with…
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I have been speaking out against P4P for over 10 years. What is P4P? It is pay-for-performance or what I call “Physician Profiling”. Here is an example from my blog in 2012 and again in 2015. So, why was it started and continued? Because the Ivory tower docs, who don’t actually practice medicine, thought it was a brilliant…
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Here’s a recent running list of thoughts/complaints/opinions by physicians as found on Twitter. All are kept anonymous for obvious reasons. Hospitals are obsessed with protocols and systemwide ‘standards’. Why? It allows them to extract physician knowledge, simplify it, and allow (cheaper) midlevels to take over. “At my hospital, we’re encouraged to take “mental days off”…
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