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About Us Our Business: L & C Internet Enterprises, Inc. Our Mission: Based on the fact that the medical profession continues to deteriorate from the complete lack of education in business principles and marketing knowledge, it provides us with the incredible opportunity to correct that deficiency by any means possible that is within our ability and power to do so. Our Convictions: Overwhelming evidence from studies, research, respected business experts, and formidable business schools have revealed undeniable proof that businesses succeed at their highest potential only when the foundational business principles are applied consistently to any business. Consequently, physicians and other professional healthcare providers who lack an academic foundational knowledge of business are destined to ultimately fail in their business of medical practice. If not complete failure, then a medical practice of very mediocre profitability contributing to the serious frustration of the majority of physicians today with their profession. The resulting attrition of doctors in our country and elsewhere is marked by quitting medical practice in droves, retiring earlier than planned, and refusing to acquiesce to incomes far below what they have honestly earned through extended education and prolonged time in training....without even mentioning the costs involved. We believe that any physician or other medical professional who is given the tools they can use to reach their highest potential and value to their patients and society, will not only remain financially solvent but actually continue to grow their income and their practice regardless of the economic circumstances. Those tools are found in a business education, which includes marketing education.    The only way that healthcare professionals can solve or avoid these barriers is to know how to make enough personal income to reach complete satisfaction and fulfillment in their profession. We stand by this belief. Our Promise: 1. To make physicians and other professional healthcare providers aware of the true cause of their financial problems with their practices. 2. To overcome the blinding effects of mindsets that inhibit any physician from opening their minds to what they need to do to reach their original goals in the medical profession, not reachable otherwise. 3. To provide the education and materials necessary for any physician to reach their full potential at the pace they choose. 4. To make a passionate attempt to rectify what has always been missing in the education of medical professionals with the hope that the academic minds will find a way to provide business education for all medical professionals during their training process.   "Reliable Medical Practice Marketing Strategies are Good, But Learning How To Use Them Effectively Is Exactly What You Find Here......Period!"      "We care about the health of your practice and have created a top rated medical website to help you to do something about it!"           We acknowledge the blessings of the Almighty each time in our lives we have used our talents for the benefit of other medical doctors.           You'll probably notice rather quickly I'm being held hostage by ambition and enthusiasm. Why else would I invest so much time in my life to the practice of medicine, and just plain helping people.  I know the good Lord put me exactly where he wants me, although many times I have seriously questioned his decision.  But I wasn't about to argue with Him.         Linda and Curt                       Adversity in my life no doubt gave me the tools to push my natural talents to their upper limits. I'm not complaining, mind you, but I have to admit they have kept me busy and out of trouble—most of the time!  (Whole story at the bottom)           Adversity has a powerful effect on all of us. Right?  I'm sure it's the very reason Johnny Cash recorded the country hit, "A Boy Named Sue."  And that isn't the half of it—my sister's name is Sue—so guess mom missed her chance! And I plain lucked out! This is where we get personal!           I was raised in small rural town of Platea, PA.---population about 250. All were working hard hoping for a better life while WWII was going on.  Attending a small two room school house (4 grades in each room) wasn't so bad. It was the outside toilets 40 yards from the school building in the winter next to Lake Erie that got to me.          Our country high school (about 200 students) in Girard, PA---population about 2500, still the same today--- could only handle two sports (basketball and football) ---unless you include gym class as the third.  The American Legion sponsored two baseball teams in town for those of us who needed another challenge--and I was one of those. The outfield was wild clumped grass that my grandfather mowed down weekly towing his mower behind his tractor.          Gas was 26 cents a gallon in 1952, and no one locked their doors.  Imagine that!  It was a generation of hard work and family reunions.  We actually left our doors unlocked because we could trust our neighbors in those days.  Dr. Hollingsworth was the only family doctor in town and he made house calls---what I consider a real doctor.          At 12 I drove the small tractor by myself as most farm boys do. By 14 I was driving my grandparents 51 Chevy around everywhere without a drivers license.  Nobody seemed to mind that, even the local town cop.           My ultimate embarrassment came when I flunked my first driver's test, after I had been driving a car for over 2 years already.  He said he flunked me because I never shifted it into high gear in the parking lot driving course. However, it became evident to me that my cocky body language and smart-ass attitude about my supreme ability and driving experience in the previous 2 years was just more than the officer who gave me the test could tolerate--and I needed a little "put down."  He was right!  Second trip through the course was a snap.          My grandparents raised me (from age 11) on their hundred acre "working" farm. During those hours out in the fields with my grandfather (he taught school for 22 years before farming), I was given the golden rules to live by—and still do. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise.          With financial help from my family I worked my way through Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA).          Almost every doctor finishing medical school at that time (1962) was being drafted--Vietnam conflict had started. I volunteered so that I would have a choice of military services. I served in the Navy and with the Marines 1961-1967. It gets a lot more lively from here.          You see, my first mistake was in thinking that they couldn't send me into the combat zone in Vietnam if I was in the Navy.  Boy---was I wrong!          After completing my year of medical internship at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia, my next assignment was on the new aircraft carrier USS GUADALCANAL in Philadelphia.  After three days of sea trials in rough seas I came to my personal conclusion that sea-sickness should be placed on the list of disabling diseases.          After completing the 6 month course at the Naval School of Aviation Medicine in Pensacola April 1964, I was assigned to a Marine aviation unit HMM 365--MCAF Santa Ana, CA.  My second mistake was not considering that the Marines had branches of aviation squadrons that deploy to combat zones. You guessed it!  Not that I really had any choice of assignments.          This Flight Surgeon with HMM 365 Marine Helicopter Squadron did deploy to Vietnam Oct. 1964.  Fresh out of Internship (14 months after) I'm managing combat injuries with no actual trauma management or experience.  As an intern in a stateside hospital you simply call in the trauma surgeon to do the fix-up work. Combat injury triage was something I had not been taught, but soon learned.          Our tour in DaNang, Vietnam became a pivot point of my life.  It turned out that I was one of the few Naval Flight Surgeons who actually flew on combat med-evac missions (over 80).  Navy corpsmen normally do that.  The Marine Corps has no medical personnel of their own.  The Navy assigns corpsmen, physicians, and other medical-dental personnel to serve with the Marine units. DaNang, S. Vietnam--1965 Dan...Curt...Dave (My two corpsmen)         When my wife now says, "Let's go camping," I suddenly get a completely different vision of the process than she does.          I avoided the third mistake by resigning my commission June 1967.....or stay in and go back to Vietnam.  Like the old "expectation" in the 1950s that joining the National Guard was a neat way to avoid actual combat and deployment outside the USA.           I completed three year specialty training residency (OB-GYN) at Hahnemann University Hospital and Medical School, Phila. PA.  After 25 years in private practice in the Bay Area of CA and five years as a hospitalist employee after that in Michigan, I retired from practice in 1999 at my wife's insistence and my increasing frustration with the medical practice environment.  "Great accomplishments have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm "                                                   Thomas J. Watson    Linda was raised in Portland, OR--- then Redding, CA, attended Univ. of  Oregon, and spent over 10 years as a Medical Assistant in several doctor's offices, the last 25 in my office as manager. She has spunk, brains, and loves helping people. How could I help not marrying her?  It's impossible to relate how many times her incredible judgment, business savvy, and social acumen have kept me on the right path. The only exception I can think of is when she got me on a pair of skis for the first time at age 45. You might say it bruised my ego, strained my judgment, terrorized my sense of balance, and scrapped my mental picture of how easy it would be—at least on the first day. We did come out about even, when it came to camping. OK—Now about my writing credentials:           My writing talent came to me inadvertently. The need to educate my patients became obvious right from the start of my medical practice. It began with constructing some simple medical treatment instructions and advice as handouts for my patients.  No other local physicians were doing that in the 1970s locally.  Forgetting what your doctor just told you is usual.  This gave patients a second resource for the healthcare information without having to call back and ask. Saved myself and my office staff hours of time with phone calls from patients.           It was easy for me to write everything in simple-to-understand terms.  Patients often asked for extra medical handouts to give other family members and friends.  An enjoyable hobby to educate my patients was all it was intended to be.  My idea spread to other physicians. My associates started making up their own patient information sheets using mine as a guide.  An accumulation of instructional books and information about writing effectively kept me in the flame and improved my writing ability--even if it was just a hobby.           My brother is to blame.             He encouraged me to test the waters of the medical publication world just for the heck of it.  Joe Conn, editor of Modern Physician, felt sorry for me and agreed to publish a short article of mine in Modern Physician. I was hooked.           Being able to publish ezines, newsletters, and e-books on the Internet has opened another great opportunity for me to continue to help other doctors using the knowledge both medical and business related which I have accumulated over all those years.  Many of my medical articles are being published in the article directories, primarily in ezinearticles.com, and at www.SelfGrowth.com.  My articles are all reviewed and approved by the ezine editors for acceptable, credible, and valuable content......no useless info allowed.            Medical professional educational articles published on marketing a medical practice.com never get any better than what you'll find on this site.              It's hard to quit!—being productive, that is.           Imagine, a 74 year old computer illiterate physician who has mastered the Internet and became computer literate at a much higher level than the average person. Doesn't that beat all?           Somehow the thought of listing my credentials, medical and social organizations I belong to (and have belonged to), and other awards just doesn't seem appropriate here. Actually, all three of my awards turned out to belong to someone else! ........Just kidding!              If you prefer a list, I'll send you one—no problem!  You can also have a copy of my CV if that's important to you. (Curtis G. Graham, M.D., FACOG, FACS) P.S. The medical profession has accomplished unbelievable steps in the evolution of healthcare and medical treatment over time, but there remains for the older doctors the difficult process of adapting to the digital age of medicine.  The new generation of physicians have jumped ahead on that issue, while lacking in some of the more important issues critical to medical practice business and marketing success.	Fed up with medical fee restrictions killing your practice income?.....learn the solutions to this problem today! Do something about it right now! Our advanced medical practice no B.S. marketing and business newsletter .......... is guaranteed to keep your medical practice revenue  soaring when you implement easy quick powerful business tools that all successful businesses use. Do it yourself.   Easy and quick strategies.   Cost metered to your needs.   No sacrifice of patient time.   Increase your practice income by 200% or more in the next 6 to 9 months.   Expand your business and marketing knowledge-- www.webmd.com  http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/List_of_academic_ disciplines#Business www.business.com/directory /small_business/education _and_training  www.uwlax.edu/sbdc/ Business-Education.htm  www.WGU.edu www.Phoenix.edu www.a2zcolleges.com/ Mgmt/manworld.html  http://www.hubspot.com/ marketing-resources/ http://www.marketingterms .com/education/
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