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Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital? – Medical Group Minute

We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.

An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.

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News Flash: Physician Dissatisfaction Highest Among Those Employed by Hospitals and Investor-Owned Entities

Last week (November 20, 2018), I mentioned the increase in the physician dissatisfaction index, which now tops out at 3.95 out of a possible 5. See my Success in Motion video, Physician Misery Index Jumps Up Due To Dissatisfaction. The survey, conducted annually by the data technology firm Geneia, found that 87% of surveyed physicians say […]

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