Don’t focus too intently on patient care and forget the rest.
In the top down world, there is a disincentive to get ahead. Caps and controls and courts.
Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.
The future for medical groups might not be big or small.
You decided to sell your medical group to a large national group or to the hospital. If you’ve been paying attention to my blog posts, you know that I strongly believe that the creation of large players in healthcare, especially large hospital-centric players, is making the industry far more fragile, far more prone to fail […]
Having all group members buy in to the same cause is a winning strategy.
It’s the same degree of freedom that exists within the giraffe enclosure at the Santa Barbara Zoo: the giraffes can run anywhere they want, except where they can’t.
Does your group have a contractual right to enforce standards of behavior?
If yours is an average group, you’re doing more work for less pay.
All medical groups have a culture, whether or not it’s been purposefully created. It exists.