For whom are hospitals built? For the health of patients or for the financial health and convenience of its operators and staff?
Philosophy
Thoughts on the philosophy of business and life
Transparency Within Medical Groups
However, keep in mind that the most successful groups, the Strategic Groups™, are not run as clubs. They are not completely transparent.
Do You See Your Group as It Is or as You Wish It Were? – Medical Group Minute
Are you wearing a metaphorical pair of Blu-Blocker sunglasses?
You Are Not a Service – Medical Group Minute
Running a hospital based group as a “service” for the hospital, functioning as a sort of clearing house for income and expense, severely limits your group’s future.
Mixed Message: Restricting Scope of Practice at Medi-Spas, Increasing it Elsewhere
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal reporting that more states are regulating Medi-Spa ownership and placing scope of practice restrictions on the procedures performed at those facilities. It seems as if they’ve discovered that nurses and other paraprofessionals, and in some cases, even beauticians, are performing what many, most, or, perhaps, nearly…
Karl Marx, M.D. – Medical Group Minute
For the most part, physicians are stuck in a Marxian world of reimbursement.
Cyprus, USA
If you’ve been reading the international news, you’re probably familiar with the fact that the government of Cyprus, a European Union member, is under pressure from the European Central Bank to seize funds in private depositors’ bank accounts to bail out Cypriot banks. Although when first floated, all accounts were targeted for seizure in varying…
No More Room for Average
In some instances in life and in business, it pays to wait and see. In other instances, after weighing alternatives, it pays to do nothing. But not with your business.
L’air du Temps
It was a breezy day. Dozens of sailboats dotted the sea outside of the safety of the Santa Barbara harbor. Many were running with the wind, being propelled quickly in the direction chosen by it. Others were heading, in general but not absolute terms, against it by tacking at angles across it. L’air du temps,…
New Years UnResolutions for 2013
I’ve sometimes wondered about the amount of importance attached to the arbitrary selection of the date we call January 1, New Years Day, as the date on which to make resolutions about our future behavior.