Ambulante Behandlung ist familienfreundlich

Although happily being located in the heart of Europe, both Franz and I have spent a decent amount of the time in the US and it’s still great to see the innovation coming out of certain areas across the ocean. One of the recent additions on the venture capital, incubator and tech funding game has been Rock Health. A pleasent and transparent alternative to chunky venture capital firms or other institutional investors and a self-proclaimed “seed accelerator for health apps”. The Rock Health approach is clear and understandable for people who are not so fundraising-savvy. The program is dedicated to entrepreneurs who want to build applications or products that are dedicated to solving health-related issues. So if you are a young medical doctor, medical student or any other person who believes in technology and its capability to help improving health, then you should definitively have a look at what the fund offers. At a glance $20,000 startup grant to each team Support from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation and Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Mentorship and workshops from experts in design, health policy, lean startup methodology, financing, and more Office space in Silicon Valley Office hours with startup counsel lawyer Michael Esquivel and legal […]

This is a post somewhat of an extension to a recent one about what it means to be physician – or not be one. The argument is that, there is a bunch of medical doctors out there that would want to switch to a different job, yet it’s really hard to do so. Whenever a physician switches jobs and turns away from the medical profession, the public, the parents, the friends – they all don’t get it. Why would you give up the reputation, a good salary and being paid for saving peoples lives? Indeed, medicine is an honorable and highly respected profession. Now imagine you are in the midst of your residency and decide that you don’t want to pursue a medical career – at lest not a “classical one”. You tell your spouse or best friend and usually they’ll flip out. Interestingly, you won’t see the same irritated faces if you had studied business and wanted to leave accounting or even law and wanted to quit being an attorney – but that’s another matter. People expect you to be working in the field of work you were educated in – and that’s not good. In most European countries […]