154: How Cheap Lottery Tickets Can Skyrocket Your Healthcare Career

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The Better Outcomes Show

Rafael E. Salazar II, MHS, OTR/L

164 episodes

5 days ago

Exploring the possibilities of a new healthcare.

Let’s get real: Healthcare is broken. You know it. I know it. Every clinician who came into this field from a desire to care for others, knows this to be undeniably true. We feel it everyday when we enter our clinics, hospitals, and practices. We feel the burden of time-based productivity metrics, utilization rates, and the expectation to behave like cogs in a giant, soul-crushing machine aimed at extracting revenue from our patients in exchange for “units” of treatment.

Healthcare should be about one thing: PEOPLE! Yet how many clinics, organizations, or healthcare professionals live their lives by the numbers? Metrics & spreadsheets drive most of our healthcare decision makers and administrators. That leaves patients -the people we serve- lost in the mix. Patient’s feel lost, forgotten, and ignored by a system that prioritizes efficiency & productivity over their own personal experiences, priorities, or goals.

It’s time for clinicians to finally stand up and say what we’ve all been thinking for so long: enough is enough!

It’s time for healthcare organizations to commit to serving the individual needs of each unique patient that they are charged with serving.

Join Rafael E. Salazar II, MHS, OTR/L (Rafi), principal of Rehab U Practice Solutions and host of The Better Outcomes Show as he explores the possibilities of a new healthcare. Guests range from clinicians trying new techniques and treatments to executives and entrepreneurs exploring new service delivery methods, business models, and organizational structures.

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154: How Cheap Lottery Tickets Can Skyrocket Your Healthcare Career

The Better Outcomes Show

50 minutes

6 months ago

154: How Cheap Lottery Tickets Can Skyrocket Your Healthcare Career

Have You Ever Thought About Buying Cheap Lottery Tickets?

I've bought a lot of cheap lottery tickets over the years. Not the kind you scratch off to see if you hit it big. I'm talking about the little bets, risks, or asks I've made over the years. They cost very little but can have a huge upside. In this episode, I’m sharing a lesson that’s shaped a lot of the opportunities I’ve had in my career — the idea of making small bets and being willing to hear the word “no.”

My dad used to say, “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you do ask, the worst they can say is ‘no,’ and then you’re right back where you started.” For whatever reason, that stuck with me. Over the years, I’ve taken what I call “cheap lottery tickets” — small risks or asks that didn’t cost much but had the potential for a huge upside. That mindset has opened doors for me in consulting, in buying a practice, and in landing projects, I never thought I’d be part of. And sure, I’ve heard “no” plenty of times — stacked up a mountain of kind rejections, really — but it only takes one or two “yeses” to change everything.

We often think someone was just lucky to get a certain opportunity, but we don’t see the 100 rejections that came before it. I think what we call “luck” is often just someone’s willingness to keep putting themselves out there.

What we cover in this Episode:

-How small risks potentially create big opportunities
-Why hearing "no" isn't the end of the world (or the end of the road)
-Understanding risk tolerance in healthcare business
-Why persistence often looks like luck from the outside

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