Coups and business cloning often decimate medical groups.
Category: Cohesive Group
Coups and business cloning often decimate medical groups, both office based and hospital based practices.
Sure, it’s all PC to “counsel” these guys. To tell them how much you love them if only they will toe the line and be good boys or girls and get along with everyone while singing Kumbaya.
Someone, or some faceless trend, is always impacting your future.
In terms of thinking about the future, are practicing physicians really different from residents? I recently gave the opening lecture in my series for residents. The first topic: The trends affecting the future of their practice. Some in the audience paid close attention. Others didn’t. An even smaller number came up afterwards to ask in […]
I recently spoke with a former group leader, who will go unnamed.
It had taken him years to build up a successful hospital-based practice with dozens of physician providers. Over the course of those years, he worked hard to build what he thought was a strong relationship with the administration of the hospital at which the group provided services. And, over the course of those years, he worked hard to keep competing groups at bay, protecting his group’s tenure at the facility.
Time travel. It’s a familiar theme in literature and even television. H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Quantum Leap. Even Dr. Who.
Hospital-based medical groups shouldn’t simply conceptualize their practice as one business. If you’re a medical group leader, you must view your practice as consisting of several independent, yet coordinated, units, each of which requires a separate focus. So, for example: There is a group owner unit There is an employee/subcontractor unit There is a hospital unit There is a […]
A few days ago I heard another of what is becoming a familiar story. A hospital had dumped its longstanding hospital-based contractor (this time an anesthesia group) in favor of a “national practice.” The national practice presented well – lots of guys in nice suits and far better graphics on their presentation materials than the […]
