How to ‘niche your medicine’ to quadruple your income

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Rotorua GPCME 2024

How to ‘niche your medicine’ to quadruple your income

Patrice

Dougan

pdougan@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 8 January 2025, 10:30 AM

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This article was first published online on 8 July 2024.

From Patrice: Born out of an interesting session at the Rotorua GPCME, this story looks at ways to add niche sub-specialities into your general practice to increase revenue and find your passion

"Niche-ing” up your medicine could potentially quadruple your income, says a medical business leader. Developing a subspecialty interest provides G

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