Creating additional levels of bureaucracy – more paperwork, more direction, more top-down control – leaves less time for patient care, at least for care that is customized as opposed to cookie cutter. It leads to physician dissatisfaction and less, not more, job security.
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What the patient expects is of paramount importance.
In my work with physician groups across the country, I often encounter this defeatist attitude.
If collaboration really is the real thing, let the hospital design the deal, but the physicians control it.
In a nutshell, Reinertsen states that radiologists should reconcile themselves to lower incomes and simply focus on quality.
Hospital-based medical groups shouldn’t simply conceptualize their practice as one business. If you’re a medical group leader, you must view your practice as consisting of several independent, yet coordinated, units, each of which requires a separate focus. So, for example: There is a group owner unit There is an employee/subcontractor unit There is a hospital unit There is a […]
Negotiation doesn’t take place in a vacuum, it takes place within a context. So why not control the context?