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Hoping all you private practice and employed pathologists can give me some advice.
I'm an academic pathologist but have a business/entrepreneurial spirit. Most of my work is in a very niche area of AP where the vast majority of non-academic groups send the specimens out to large academic or private labs for processing and interpretation. My local-regional area has very little expertise in this field, which is part of what drew me to this job - the opportunity to build a consult service. Currently specimens are being sent out of state and often across the country. I'm just laying the foundation for this push right now.
I'm good at what I do, hardworking, and personable.
1. If you were a local group around me, how could I best earn your business?
2. Do you really care who you send esoteric specimens to? Do you care who your clinicians want their specimens sent to (if they have an opinion, or if I was referred to them by other clinicians that worked with me)?
3. Would you prefer working with a local pathologist(s) that you have a relationship with rather than sending to a large lab across the country?
4. Should I just cold-call? Call practice manager and ask to set up a time to chat? Stop by and discuss in person? Email?
5. Anything else I'm missing?
Thanks all, would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
I'm an academic pathologist but have a business/entrepreneurial spirit. Most of my work is in a very niche area of AP where the vast majority of non-academic groups send the specimens out to large academic or private labs for processing and interpretation. My local-regional area has very little expertise in this field, which is part of what drew me to this job - the opportunity to build a consult service. Currently specimens are being sent out of state and often across the country. I'm just laying the foundation for this push right now.
I'm good at what I do, hardworking, and personable.
1. If you were a local group around me, how could I best earn your business?
2. Do you really care who you send esoteric specimens to? Do you care who your clinicians want their specimens sent to (if they have an opinion, or if I was referred to them by other clinicians that worked with me)?
3. Would you prefer working with a local pathologist(s) that you have a relationship with rather than sending to a large lab across the country?
4. Should I just cold-call? Call practice manager and ask to set up a time to chat? Stop by and discuss in person? Email?
5. Anything else I'm missing?
Thanks all, would really appreciate your thoughts on this.