1. BUSINESS BACKGROUND
1.1 Identification of a Business
To improve access to health care in rural and urban areas, Dr A.Mookadam is to start-up a new family medicine homoeopathic practice. The business will be owned and managed by me as a sole proprietorship. The responsibility for ensuring the general health of patients and creating a viable and profitable business medical practice is to be attained. Through the first 2 years, Dr Mookadam (I) will work closely with advisers from my field to get the practice on a sound financial and operational footing.
1.1.1 What is Homeopathic Medicine?
Homeopathy is an alternate therapeutic health care system that is involved with individualized treatments. The aim of homeopathy is to use a safe, gentle,
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1.3 Location of Premises
The premises will be bought by me and paid over a 15 year period. It is located just off Columbine Avenue in Winchester Hills and has parking for 20 cars plus a generous carport, as well as a wide driveway entrance for patient and emergency vehicle convenience.
Diagnosing and treating conditions of all ages and highlighting preventative medicine and the overall health and wellness of my patients will be emphasized .The practice will utilize new equipment and a trained staff that will be able to optimize the care of every individual. I will be assisted by two employees: a medical assistant and a receptionist and will be responsible for the expenses during the first years of practice until profits and stability is established to assist with the expenses thereof. With only five other family homoeopathic practitioners in this area, we project a gradually increasing patient load over the first 3-5 years, as I find my place in the
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I chose TTUHSC SOM because of the ability to learn medicine in a place that values the art of patient care in its foundation as well as the ability to do anything I hope to do in medicine guided by the strength of its mission and the care that TTUHSC SOM provides for its students. I would like to conduct my medical career in a setting that converges between urban and rural settings. My parents brought their strong work ethic from Ghana, cultivated on their family’s farms, to Austin, Texas where it was critical in encouraging my own desire to work in close contact with a diverse population of patients. My experiences in the communities I’ve lived in and health care have provided me with the insight to work within both types of areas. My most prominent experiences in health care have come from working in clinics that serve underserved populations.
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There is much misapprehension about homoeopathy among physicians as well as among the laity. Among physicians there is a feeling that if we know the materia medica that is all that is required. The materia medica is indeed important, and its thorough comprehension and study is needed at all times; but unless the homoeopathic physician has a concept of the philosophy, of the reasons underlying the administration of the remedy, he will never make a careful homoeopathic physician. One of the first and foremost elements with which the homoeopathic physician must be conversant is the different forms of energy, for it is on this basis only that we can prescribe homoeopathically.
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