Unfortunately, there’s growing similarity between selling cars and selling medical care. You wish it weren’t true, but wishing alone isn’t going to change anything.
Tag: commodity
The marketplace for hospital based services is becoming increasingly commoditized.
You get what you pay for.
Mastery for medical groups, like for airlines or my own services, must broaden to cover the entire customer experience.
ACO’s. Competition by hospital employed physicians. Commoditization. Just a few of the “problems” that physician group leaders struggle with. But are those really the problems? Perhaps they are actually symptoms of a different problem or set of problems. For example, the problem of increasing “We” think and, especially, the problem of increasing bureaucratization and centralization […]
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 it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the […]
You can buy a cheap pair of dress shoes that will crack and wear out in a year or you can buy shoes with an initial high price tag with much more supple leather and better craftsmanship that will last, with upkeep, more than a decade. Which pair was actually less expensive?