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Can a Husband and Wife Medical Practice Truly Work Whats The Key

Can a Husband and Wife Medical Practice Truly Work? What’s The Key?

  1. Employees get confused as to whom they should listen to and who is truly in charge
  2. A wife can become jealous of female employees that work closely with the doctor
  3. While emotions can be used to inspire and encourage, emotional considerations must be avoided when it comes to making business decisions.
  4. Often internal conflict of loyalties can occur if one or the other is charged with all employee selection, firing, and payroll of staff
  5. Good Cop, Bad Cop routine causes the staff to be paralyzed in decision making
  6. Husband and Wife personal and family conflicts get brought into the practice
  7. The practice is brought to a standstill when both are attending family events or go on vacations leaving no decision maker on site
  8. Employees are exposed to the business disagreements between husband and wife
  9. Inability to separate work life and family life which causes marital discord and makes for an uncomfortable work environment
  10. Bullying or abusive attitude toward employees because the husband is the doctor/owner and he has to spend a lot of time with the female staff
  1. A unified approach to staff interaction, patient selection, and management
  2. All hiring should be a joint decision based on each one interviewing the prospective candidate and viewing their credentials
  3. Weekly staff meetings with both the doctor and the practice manager/wife to ensure transparency
  4. Establish proper professional communication within the practice, leave personal attitudes and issues at home, the practice is not the place to air your family issues
  5. Create an environment where the staff feel comfortable to address either of you about their concerns without feeling or worrying about retaliation from the other
  6. Have clearly defined a chain of command within the practice about whom the staff should speak to about problems and stick to that
  7. Jointly keep the staff informed about changes to process and procedures and get staff input if the proposed changes will affect their work routine and hours of operation.

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