The large pharmacy chains are opening walk-in clinics in their stores, staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The huge number of independent pharmacies can follow the same route. For most physicians this means more competition. But for enterprising physicians and independent pharmacists, the opportunity to do deals abounds.
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Ride along with Mark as he tells you about how another flea took another bite. Will it kill another hospital CEO?
Just as no vote was required for a dictator like Castro to take over Cuba, no medical staff vote, no survey by Press Ganey, no long and drawn out process among “stakeholders,” is required to topple the status quo.
Just as no vote was required for a dictator like Castro to take over Cuba, no medical staff vote, no survey by Press Ganey, no long and drawn out process among “stakeholders,” is required to topple the status quo.
In my 2017 post, What You Need To Know About The Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed The Medical Center CEO, I wrote about the fact that, as in a guerrilla war, change within an organization, as well as within a domain in which the organization interacts, can occur as a result of agitation by a vocal […]
As humans, we’re primed by evolutionary forces to fear the loss of something much more than we value an equivalent gain.
What you think is permanent is only temporary. How temporary is the question.
What you think is permanent is only temporary. How temporary is the question.
As humans, we’re primed by evolutionary forces to fear the loss of something much more than we value an equivalent gain. That’s why many medical group leaders are concerned that market and other pressures will have a significantly negative impact on their group. From competition from hospital-aligned physicians, to the failure of the hospital, to […]
I can’t be sure that anyone on the medical staff at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach, California read my 2017 post, What You Need To Know About The Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed The Medical Center CEO, but they appear to be following the same strategy in an attempt to eject a hospital CEO.