Are most doctors entrepreneurial?
Doctors, like most members of the population, are not especially entrepreneurial. Plenty of us are successful in business but our world is one insulated by virtue of educational demands, and the obligations of licensing and credentialing to be a largely closed one. Spence, cited at the beginning of this essay, has it half-right and half-wrong. Within our world of healthcare we do well. The more ambitious, risk tolerant, creative, flexible, energetic and self-confident among us, can carve out niches within clinical practice where we can innovate and achieve significant financial rewards thus, be intrapreneurial. The requirements if we want to be entrepreneurs are no different for doctors than others.
