“I quickly learnt to be a businesswoman from the need to make money,” says the lithe 40-something with a laugh. “At the time, I had just got married and sold my car to start the clinic. I realised that there are systems you must put in place and that you have to motivate every single staff to make the business work.”
For aesthetic doctor Low Chai ling, beauty is about being the best version of yourself, and running a business is about motivating staff to give their best
SINGAPORE (Nov 4): Doctors are trained to practise medicine, but little in medical school prepares them for the business of medicine. This is a fact Dr Low Chai Ling knows well. Months into opening her first clinic in 2000, she found herself floored by the fact that despite seeing numerous patients daily, her clinic failed to register a profit at the end of each month.
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