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Starting a practice is a life-changing endeavor that is both rewarding and frustrating all in one. The most important thing you will ever do is to decide on where you want to live and put down roots. Starting your own practice is as important of a decision that you will ever make, and it affects everything you have worked so hard to accomplish. Being prepared and researching the area you choose to practice and live and knowing whom to hire to help you are not instant decisions. Things need to be thought out both short- and long term. A banker, accountant, attorney/compliance officer, administrator, and computer engineer/information technology (IT) are much needed to attain your goals. Remembering that you are an ophthalmologist first and do not know it all; asking for help will make these processes and important decisions much easier and in the end, success can and will be yours.
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Stephenson, P.D. (2021). Starting Your Own Practice. In: Weng, C.Y., Berrocal, A.M. (eds) Women in Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59335-3_6
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