Prevent others from fooling you or, even worse, from you fooling yourself.
Category: Employment
Decisions and paths are flexible, fluid, customizable. They are infinitely adjustable, like Gumby.
In common with other businesses, medical groups often assume that deals and decisions are like on–off switches, yea or nay, thumbs up or thumbs down.
I’ve been thinking today about Pareto-type distribution, you know the “80/20 rule,” and physician employment. By physician employment, I’m addressing that situation in which there is no opportunity for meaningful ownership by the affected physician. So, for example, becoming an employee in a physician owned group in which there is a track to equal ownership […]
It’s often how the mistake maker, not the “victim,” reacts that makes the difference in the outcome.
Does your group have a contractual right to enforce standards of behavior?
Those who are surprised that employers are increasingly turning to part time workers and temps to escape Obamacare are clueless.
Many “experts” tell physicians that the key to financial security is employment by hospitals. Do they really think you’re that blind?
What happens when one of the members of your group who is assigned to work at different sites, acts out on his or her bias against working at a particular location, perhaps by showing up late, or by making untoward comments to the staff, or by engaging in some other type of disruptive behavior?
Hospital employment provides physicians no more safety than any other type of employment.