It was late December. I was sitting across the table from the hospital CEO. We were in the midst of negotiating a deal involving my client, a large physician group, and his facility. And then, he made a major negotiating blunder, giving up on a deal point clearly in my client’s favor, in fact, a…
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Risky Behavior And Healthcare Businesses – Podcast
When we think of risky behavior, we usually think of personal acts.
Amorality of Institutions – An Additional Argument for Physician Control of Hospitals – Podcast
People, not institutions, are capable of morality. At best, institutions are amoral. At worst, they are immoral.
Franchising as a Healthcare Business Model – Podcast
Franchise models exist in medicine as well as in hamburgers. For example, in the urgent care center market.
Risky Behavior and Healthcare Businesses
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.
Franchising as a Healthcare Business Model
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.
Patient Complications Produce Hospital Profits
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.
Amorality of Institutions – An Additional Argument for Physician Control of Hospitals
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.