One myth around private equity in Dermatology is that the PE backers will want to tell Dermatologists how to practice medicine\u2014which services they should push, which equipment they can use, how many PAs or NPs they should employ. <\/p>\n
For the Forefront Dermatologist, practicing with complete clinical autonomy is non-negotiable: we control everything that takes place in the walls of our clinic, from the curtains to the chair and from the people we hire to the amount of time we spend with each individual patient. As one Forefront Dermatologist recently put it, \u201cHaving joined Forefront after working in a large, hospital-based, multi-disciplinary group practice, I can say that I\u2019ve never had the amount of practice autonomy that I have now. In my clinic\u2014and I do call it my clinic\u2014I’m the one making the decisions that matter to me. Yet I don’t have to make the decisions that I could care less about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere I\u2019ve cautioned people to avoid using a \u201cbroad brush\u201d to describe private equity-backed group practices, and I want to avoid doing the same here with respect to individuals. I know that not every Dermatologist wants to practice with the same degree of autonomy. There are plenty of exceptional Dermatologists who are happiest with a hospital structure, for instance, and who provide excellent care within the constraints of that setting. And there are others who might not even consider working in a group practice setting. Autonomy, for them, extends well beyond patient care to the administrative nitty-gritty and back-end minutiae. Forefront Dermatologists have determined that they can provide optimal care by offloading many of these administrative tasks. For them, autonomy means freedom from these stresses as well as the freedom to make all clinical decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One myth around private equity in Dermatology is that the PE backers will want to tell Dermatologists how to practice medicine\u2014which services they should push, which equipment they can use, how many PAs or NPs they should employ. For the Forefront Dermatologist, practicing with complete clinical autonomy is non-negotiable: we control everything that takes place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-equity-myths"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n