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How Doctors are Like Bookstores

October 12, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

BookstoresI came across this tweet recently. It linked to a blogpost written to promote bookstores and discourage the use of Amazon.

WHY YOU SHOULD USE A REAL BOOKSTORE OVER AMAZON

It got me thinking how doctors are at risk of becoming like book vendors.

Don’t beg like the guy promoting brick and mortar businesses. Of course, supplication will keep you alive in the short run. But ultimately you have to find what you can do that the platform/AI/machine/algorithm/provider can’t. You have to understand how you bring value. Then, like the great stores, you’ll never be out of business.

The physician’s greatest concern should be irrelevance. And anyone who can be replaced deserves to be replaced.


If you like this post you may like the 33 charts MD Future archives. If you look at the very bottom of this post you’ll see in a tiny font ‘MD Future.’ This is a tag. All of our posts have them. They connect you to other posts that are similar. MD Future covers all the issues of the physician transformation into a new and different form of professional. All tags are manually applied. I hope you enjoy..

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