Making better community part of your practice.
For many years now, I have believed that physicians in private practice have to pay attention to two primary objectives: (1) doing what’s good for their patients (better medicine) and (2) doing what’s good for their practice (better business). After several excellent conversations with Mark Kontos, MD, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Tyrie Jenkins, MD, of Honolulu, I’ve come to see that there is a third and highly compelling leg that needs to be added to this proverbial stool: doing what’s good for the world around me (better community). It’s high time that doctors in general and refractive surgeons specifically embrace and create their own version of doing good while doing well…
