New trends and cutting-edge research have reveals changes on where to purchase and where to start-up practices.  This is more of a change based upon the consumption patterns found in your patient-base.  The good news is that these location types are more profitable and better for your quality-of-life.  The bad news is that it may not be what you think.

I got thinking about the hard decisions I have had to make in my life and my career.  And I have been thinking about the many doctors who I have helped endure the sleepless nights wondering and worrying.  This episode is about those nights and decisions.  It about Perspectives to move forward.  I think it may inspire you a little.

So many changes are occurring in determining the best place to practice that we have reconfigured our recommendations as the rules have change. 

A "disinvestment event" is a term demographers use to determine whether a place is going to be in trouble in the future.  We track these to tell our clients the difference between a troubled or promising location.  Let about these events in this episode and where they are most common.

The rules are changing on what makes a good location and what is a bad location for practice.  You may as well learn the truth: Everything is shifting, at least a little. Civil unrest is also changing the natural desirability of locations as well.