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Success In Motion | Videocast

Hospital Closures Drive Change and Physician Led ASC Opportunity – Success in Motion

Over the past few years, 83 rural hospitals have closed. Mark discusses why, although each disrupted employees and the physicians on staff, hospital closures present opportunity for entrepreneurial physicians.

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Medical Group Minute | Videocast

Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without a Hospital – Medical Group Minute

Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.

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Impending Death of Hospitals | Podcast

Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital? – Podcast

We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.

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Impending Death of Hospitals | Medical Group Minute | Videocast

Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital? – Medical Group Minute

We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.

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Impending Death of Hospitals

Chicago’s Oldest Hospital to Close. Provides Lesson On Not Opening Another One.

Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys...

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Medical Group Minute | Videocast

More On What Do You Call a Hospital with Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”? – Medical Group Minute

Quick quiz: If a patient or a payor has the choice of having a procedure performed (A) on a hospital inpatient basis, or (B) on an outpatient basis, then, assuming it's safe to perform that procedure on that patient in either setting, at which setting will it be performed?

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Pain Physicians and Patients in Pain From Corporate Practice Gone Bad

There may be a shortage of foresight. But there's no shortage of stupidity.

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Impending Death of Hospitals

Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital?

We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.

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ASC | Impending Death of Hospitals | Podcast

What Do You Call A Hospital With Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”? – Podcast

Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake is that it's far better for our survival to see sticks as snakes than snakes as sticks.

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ASC | Impending Death of Hospitals

More On What Do You Call a Hospital with Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”?

Quick quiz: If a patient or a payor has the choice of having a procedure performed (A) on a hospital inpatient basis, or (B) on an outpatient basis, then, assuming it's safe to perform that procedure on that patient in either setting, at which setting will it be performed?

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