Most docs we hear from are unhappy...but we're not!

This is the blog of Matthew Hahn, MD and Shawn Moyer, MD.  We are both practicing family physicians with small, almost rural practices.  We have both been in practice since the early 2000s, a time of great change for medicine...most for the worse.
Over the years, we have developed a number of transformational ideas in regard to the outpatient practice of medicine.  We have been part of a small team that has developed a fantastic EMR, the Oxbow EMR.  We also began to experiment years back with re-engineering strategies.
We have been able to create a very different type of medical practice...where we take excellent, personalized care of our patients, have well trained/well paid staff, and have a very successful business model.
While we hear an almost constant din of unrest and unhappiness among our colleagues, we are HAPPY!
We are two happy docs!
We have talked about blogging for a long time...to get the word out there to other docs.  You can be happy, too.
The common theme that we hear is that docs in independent practices are finding it hard to survive, and thinking that larger employers offer salvation, leave the world of the independents for employed positions. They then find out that large employers have their own set of problems, and they are unhappy in that environment as well.
We would like to share our ideas so that independent practices can again flourish...but we believe that the methods we have developed apply to any practice setting.