Why doctors are the best sales people on earth

[Dickiy]

Anything that concerns medical profession always sell...medical doctors are important in the world, because they deal with health of everybody, so nobody can take them for granted because of their profession...doctors are the most recognised in world, but some of them doesn't take care of their health adequately...whereas they're in charge of health.

The knowledge of being a doctor does not necessarily make them immune from disease. Even those who maintain a healthy lifestyle can still get sick. They remain human and there will inevitably be times of body drop, aging factors, fatigue, mental stress etc.

[General_Bitcoin]

The third is restraint. They stare the problem once, no justifying, no comparing, no reassurance. The absence of persuasion is what persuades you. You've never had a doctor explain why their advice is good value. They tell you what's wrong, and what fixes it. You never negotiate with a doctor because they never sold you anything, they told you what's wrong and then they stop talking.

This is an area to be cautious of when using in a sales scenario. The doctor will have an air of professionalism and patients will often trust their knowledge. A sales person does not have this trust. If they just point out the problem and recommend the product to be bought without any explanation it can seem as if there is pressure being put on the customer. The key message here is to gain trust. Once the customer believes you know what you are selling and are being truthful with them there isn’t much to convince them.

[Die_empty]

Next time you go see a doctor, get out your note pads. As a sales person, sell like a doctor!

Your points are not bad, and some salesmen can gain some lessons from them.

People give doctors all the attention and privileges more than any other profession. The medical field is also very complicated, so patients rely solely on the doctor's advice. I can do research to fix my car or roof, but I wouldn't do that when it comes to my body. The point I am making is that many salespeople don't enjoy the privileges doctors enjoy.

I wouldn't adopt the doctor strategy as a salesman. Prospective customers might think you are invading their privacy because of your questions. In sales, offering competitive prices is essential. Blocking customers from negotiating prices might be counterproductive.

[Doan9269]

This was a thing of the past and you have to be more upgraded to know what is really happening in the world and the profession that is more in demand, we should also consider opportunities that comes with any professions that we may decided to go for and this is why I will give this ranking and most demanding according to my own research.

Footballers and ICT/Technology field are more in demand and are also paying high than even doctors we do have intention to become in the past, now a child that has interest in technology or being a footballer will have more professional prospect than someone who is taking his time to studying medicine to become a medical doctor, things are first changing as the trends begin to emerge based on demand.

[iDEEMEE]

I quite understand what you’re trying to say, in sales it’s easier and faster to close a deal when there’s a problem you can fix for a client. There are quite some things to learn from doctors because they are problem solvers but I wouldn’t call doctors sales men. Though the world is changing and some are forgetting their oath and thinking more of profits than helping their patients but I strongly believe doctors are life savers and as such they can’t be called salesmen.

As business man or marketer ensure that what you’re offering is a solution to problems lots of people have and boom they’ll flock to you because you have what they need.

[Haunebu]

They used to be the best sales people on earth before, but I don't think that is the case anymore primarily due to the emergence of AI which help us know pretty easily whether we are being conned or not by any doctor from any field on this planet.

For example, my mom recently went to meet a doctor after checking with ChatGPT etc and she turned down insurance offers etc since she already knew that none of that was necessary. Self-research is crucial before meeting any doctor out there.

[Majestic-milf]

 The way I see it, if a doctor wants you to pay higher for something, they'd coat a small issue with a big, shiny word and then before you know it, you're either panicking or very interested in whatever they are saying because to you, whatever they say is best since they are the medical practitioners so I agree with your view, they are the best salesmen because how else can you convince one to stay healthy (even if it's something that should know without you telling them) if you don't paint it in such a way that would look convincing enough?

[Jaweria parveen]

The health sector is one of the most overpriced area in business. They leverage on the fear of people as no one wants to die and the sector is so arranged in a way that people do not have bargaining power. This is also part of the reason the big pharmaceutical industries controls governments because they have the power in their hands. Even the government do not have control in that area, no price control that works and the best they can do is to subsidise health products and services so that the average people can afford them.

Their fear has increased so much that every doctor's prediction has been quite accurate, so they are most confident about their illness when they go to the doctor. Therefore, those who have invested so much money in the field of medicine play with the pain of people to earn money. We should find the cheapest and most expensive doctor in the world who can treat our illness. Those who are government doctors are controlled by the government because they are given a place in the hospital and doctor they have built, although a doctor is a person whom the government also goes to and listens to. Doctors whose only goal is to earn money do not see people, they treat people only for money.

[Bityar]

I guess you've never given it a second thought, as no one likes to be funny with their health, but doctors are actually the most strategic sales people and almost nobody sells harder than a doctor. They never chase have anybody and they never almost lower a price, an funnybenough most of their patients never even try to negotiate a discount.

Health is something that people never compromise on it like their are many people when they get sick they think that if they have to spend millions to get healthy or to fix their health they will do it. And that is why when doctor tell u something or even write something from their clinic you never think that they are trying to sell you something instead you quietly follow the advice and you are also satisfied. And the top of that he also says you if you dont eat this or don’t listen to me it will lead to death like you could even die. So then what will that person even have left to say or think ? They will just say that just let my health get fixed i dont want anything else.

[oll]

Next time you go see a doctor, get out your note pads. As a sales person, sell like a doctor!

It's somehow become so common that we all pay close attention to a person's uniform and status. If someone puts on a doctor's coat, everyone immediately sees them as a respected figure, sinless and knowledgeable. The same goes for priests—if one of them has mental problems, no one will know about it; after all, they're holy fathers and represent innocence on earth. This is all wrong, label-based thinking. We shouldn't succumb to this, just like what the OP writes about.
Medicines are a marketing system that makes huge profits, and due to our limited medical knowledge, we're willing to pay for drugs that are sometimes untested for their therapeutic effects.

[greysonz]

I guess you've never given it a second thought, as no one likes to be funny with their health, but doctors are actually the most strategic sales people and almost nobody sells harder than a doctor. They never chase have anybody and they never almost lower a price, an funnybenough most of their patients never even try to negotiate a discount.

Big Pharma has long since become a huge, closed industry. One time, while looking at paintings in the art gallery, I met a wealthy old woman who was incredibly insightful and intelligent. Throughout our conversation, I kept thinking, "What do you do for a living?" and finally, she told me she was an inspector of pharmaceutical plants. She told me point-blank that it's a business that generates incredibly large sums of money, long since regulated no less than online casinos or the alcohol industry. Because it involves enormous amounts of capital, made on people's trust.
As I was leaving the exhibition, I watched her drive away in a huge new SUV.

[tsaroz]

Doctors do get offended when I state it IRL but the largest scam going on with the doctors are supplements they prescribe as medicine. Normal people won't know the difference between a medicine and supplements and even if they do, they believe on the doctor thinking it might be needed for you. For some specific cases, supplements might be necessary but for most of the time, they are just scams. Doctors should tell the patients what supplements they are prescribing and why otherwise for a normal person, good food could be better than supplements.
A portion of amount of sell of such supplements goes as commission to the doctors and the value of this is much larger than on the medicines.

[abhiseshakana]

 I think you wrongly make comparison between doctor and salesman. Your false equivalence can not be accepted because both has foundations of knowledge and objectives that are diametrically opposed. Doctors deal with human organs that function according to objective and measurable biological laws, their competence is rooted in the exact sciences. Meanwhile sales person competence based on social science. I don't think medical diagnosis are closing techniques.

Doctor asked patient describes the complaints regarding their body to collect collecting symptom data accurately to avoid misdiagnosis not for proposing customer to eliciting agreement. Naming of disease as diagnosis result needed to continue next medically appropriate treatment protocol. The last doctor work under professional code of ethics, everything based on medical fact and safety of life is the main thing, so they usually talk in a direct and firm manner, without any persuasion and sometimes sounds sharp, all for patient safety.

Patients do not bargain with doctors because they truly realize taht material capital and human capital to be able to practice as a doctor very expensive and long, strat from exorbitant educational costs, years of study and the burden of moral and legal responsibility for human life. There is no standard operating procedure SOP for doctors to use psychological tricks to get patient pay their service, they are not sales whose ultimate goal is gain or profit. Their medical purpose only patient recovery and safety.

[Cryptomultiplier]

This was a thing of the past and you have to be more upgraded to know what is really happening in the world and the profession that is more in demand, we should also consider opportunities that comes with any professions that we may decided to go for and this is why I will give this ranking and most demanding according to my own research.

Footballers and ICT/Technology field are more in demand and are also paying high than even doctors we do have intention to become in the past, now a child that has interest in technology or being a footballer will have more professional prospect than someone who is taking his time to studying medicine to become a medical doctor, things are first changing as the trends begin to emerge based on demand.

A child who hopes to become a footballer might have injuries that would require a doctor's attention, so also it is for someone going into ICT/Technology and they happen to sustain a serious injury in the line of work and still needs the attention of a doctor to get better.

The reason why the medical field remains very valuable till tomorrow even so much valuable that AI can hardly replace most of the top medical care aspect of it is due to the delicate nature of the human body. It's not like machines where you know where all the wires are and it might just be sane for a whole model batch produced same time.

Health is wealth and that's why doctors will remain more relevant and always use their position and knowledge to get richer because the value of the money you pay to get well is incomparable to your health status and we know that once death affects the body in any part or the whole part, all the funds you have or investment becomes a waste and passes onto the next of kin. That's why the doctor as a professional remains even more relevant than a footballing career or ICT Technology that is the future of mankind.

[BTC FutureKing]

In every country the profession of a doctor is very big and important because the doctor responsibility is to save the patient life and cure the disease.That why doctors also earn a lot of money because they know about every disease and the patient also tries to get well in every situation.That why the patient does what the doctor says. They do not even care about money.Some doctors fulfill their responsibility and work with a true heart and intention and some have a mind to give the patient the cheapest medicine and get more money and the patient comes to them again and again.Although this is wrong doctors have good qualities.They perform more operations than bad ones and bless people with life thanks to which they take more money from people.

[slapper]

The "let them talk first" technique is underused. I would like to see it used more in sales discussions. People are a lot more likely to buy into an argument they've helped form. It is just how the human brain works.

And a name is a powerful thing. Pharma companies have known this for ages. And they use it well. Give something an intimidating clinical sounding name, make people aware of it in a vague way, put up some ads about it and watch as healthy people suddenly "discover" conditions that require a monthly dose of your wonderful new medicine. That's called disease mongering. So when you say once a name is established its real and they own it... Yeah. Thats kind of the problem, not the lesson.

A good doctor will not oversell treatment, even if it means less money for them. For example, with a cold, a good doctor will recommend you go home and drink fluids, and will not try to sell you unecessary medication. Later, when the same doctor recommends a necessary surgery, you'll be more likely to believe them. That's because they didn't try to sell you anything last time.

Even with doctors, patients become customers the instant there's profit for the physician on the line. Teeth whitening? Eye surgery? Cosmetic clinics? Patients start shopping around, comparing costs, asking for discounts, reading reviews. Insurance won't cover it, and the trust goes out the window. After all, the doctor stands to gain from saying yes.

Now, all this might tempt salespeople to emulate doctors and adopt a laid back approach, but here's the thing: Most salespeolpe can't muster the resolve to tell a prospective customer, I'm sorry, you don't need this. The salespeople are all too aware of the end of the month quota, and the customer, yep, you guessed it, knows all about it, too.

That's why most salespeople still sound like salespeople.

[boyptc]

Doctors allow their patients to do most of the talking first. First lesson; allow your clients always speak first.

That is because they can't guess of what the patient is feeling. It's their license that's on the line if they will not know what's the cause and what has happened to the patient.

It's part of their job to know the cause first before they give medication or appropriate solution to what they are experiencing.

Next time you go see a doctor, get out your note pads. As a sales person, sell like a doctor!

If with relation to sales, don't sell like doctors because they don't need to sell themselves or their products to the market. Because patients are coming to them even without convincing words.

Be the one who's needed by the community and so if you're selling, sell a thing that's needed by the community always.

[Hamza2424]

Haha, well, you actually accused doctors of something that I believe they are not guilty of. They save lives, and we have to admire them. Although, where there is good, there is bad, so not all doctors are good, obviously. Some are just here to do business.

But doctors are not really persuasive because they are good at sales. They are persuasive because they have something that salespeople don't have, and that's information backed by credentialed authority.

You don't negotiate over a diagnosis or treatment because you value your health. You can negotiate, and some people even try to, but everyone values nothing over their health. We can't say they use leverage for their own good, although they have leverage and can abuse it, but not all of them are like this.

[Queen Julie]

I guess you've never given it a second thought, as no one likes to be funny with their health, but doctors are actually the most strategic sales people and almost nobody sells harder than a doctor. They never chase have anybody and they never almost lower a price, an funnybenough most of their patients never even try to negotiate a discount.

When a patient goes to see a doctor, three things always happen in that consultation or treatment room as the case may be. The first thing is order. They keep asking questions until their patient has completely described the problems themselves. By the time they go on to say what the patients need, the patients are already in agreement that something is wrong.  An average sales person doesn't know this they actually reverse the order, the speak and keep speaking first. Doctors allow their patients to do most of the talking first. First lesson; allow your clients always speak first.

I don’t completely agree with everything you’ve said, when you walk into a hospital you also have a responsibility to communicate with your doctor. How would they know what you’re experiencing or the symptoms you’re having if you don’t speak up? . So communication has to go both ways.

And also I don’t know which hospitals you’re referring to because there are hospitals where doctors actually take their time to explain things to patients.
We should also remember that hospitals have expenses to cover, including staff’s salaries and equipment expenses.
So I have think to unfair to generalize all doctors and hospitals based on a few experiences.

[Juse14]

The essence of why doctors can be considered best sellers what? I began to think what exactly you want to convey, as if telling us when we meet a doctor we must record the pattern of conversation that each doctor convey because it is considered a sales method that is conveyed in the OP.

According to us can not think so, considering the demand is much higher than just a desire, people deliberately come to see a doctor to hear the problems faced by us and they have data that is ready to be equated with what is happening in our body so as to find a conclusion and what to do because they have it, the key why doctors are so sold is because the problems faced almost all have answers to how to treat it.

People in need of healthy they will do anything even dare to pay dearly even though poor, here you can see the value of the demand and the expertise needed to provide solutions.

Sale in this field is not like sale in other fields, we can not hit flat all that.