Doctor Clinic Case Study

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David Lo Dr. Yuan-Te Lee, MD. Owner and Founder of Doctors' Doctor Clinic

Dr. Lee is a former National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) superintendent who is now part owner of a new medical clinic in Taipei, Taiwan. The clinic is called Doctors' Doctor Clinic (roughly translated) and is located on the 3rd floor of the Taipei World Trade Center's International Trade Building. He received his MD degree at Tokyo Medical School in Japan and worked as a professor at China Medical University teaching courses in Internal Medicine.

The trend today in Taiwan is that patients often develop a mistrust in a doctor, not following his or her directions and throwing away medications. Dr. Lee’s goal is to fix this gap and fix this
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Smooth transitions between doctor to doctor, 2. Finding the balance of not over-examining and not under-examining a patient, 3. Public relations
Like in any hospital system, there are always gray areas in when to call a certain specialty or use a certain specialist. At our clinic, we have specialists from all areas from immunology-rheumatology to endocrine, so it is important to know when to utilize them when is extremely important. Not being able to do so can not only cause paperwork problems but also lead to problems with the flow of patients and also cause damage to the doctor-patient relationship. At the same regard, finding the balance of not over/under prescribing or over examining is also important. Doing something over the top is not only a waste of money but also time and trust with the patient. Doing something too little will cause you to miss important information that would have been helpful in a diagnosis. Finally, public relations is extremely important for a company. At first, we had no designated person involved with PR and we had a small crisis that occurred during the beginning of our operations. Since we were one of the first high-end private clinics in Taipei, news and people started to comment and worry that we were trying to dismantle the National Health System in Taiwan
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I hope that we will be able to grow this business so that we will able to have a clinic in every major city in Taiwan and hopefully the rest of the world. Currently, we are based only in Taipei and we hope to expand this model to other parts of the

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