Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen multiple posts and comments on LinkedIn about the horrors of practicing as a cog in the wheel of Big Medicine, employment schemes facetiously referred to as “medical groups” by their health system or insurance company owners.
Many medical groups with large numbers (large being relative) of employed or subcontracted physicians have put themselves in the same sort of bind in respect of their workforce.
They’ve created an annual event out of the renewal of employment contracts and subcontracts by legislating a set renewal date.
Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you?
Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you?
Ford focused on keeping things simple, building one model that (had to) suit all, using interchangeable parts that relatively unskilled workers could assemble.
Ford focused on keeping things simple, building one model that (had to) suit all, using interchangeable parts that relatively unskilled workers could assemble.
Listen as Mark while he solves the physician retirement crisis.
New Year’s Eve. Looking back or looking ahead? Sometimes waxing poetic is the best way to stark realism. Consider Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down as far as I could To where…
We often mentally create roadblocks and boogeymen big and small (e.g., the “competition,” “that’s the way it’s done,” “the hospital controls us”) and throw them up in front of us as if they were real, when the truth is that they’re simply self-created, imagined limitations.
Robby the Robot.
No, not a Da Vinci, but a robot just the same. And, fully functional. Well, at least enough to have co-starred in the 1950’s sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet, a movie about medical groups and their physician leaders.