When we think of risky behavior, we usually think of personal acts.
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People, not institutions, are capable of morality. At best, institutions are amoral. At worst, they are immoral.
Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
Risky behavior impacts medical groups and healthcare businesses, too. Sometimes this is a result of the personal acts or omissions of an employee, as in medical malpractice.
Physician group leaders often mistakenly think that their options for business organization and for expansion are limited to the models traditionally found in medicine. But that’s simply not the case.
I argue that hospitals, as institutions, are at best amoral. At the same time, they are driven by profit and their executives bear no true downside risk, no risk of going negative in terms of personal liability.
Individuals, physicians in this discussion, are capable of morality and my experience is that most are highly moral. Sure, there are some bad apples, there are in any subset of society.