There’s an old saying that a person doesn’t really want a drill, they want a hole. I actually think there’s yet another level of thinking – why do they want the hole? Perhaps it’s to hang a painting.
Tag: structure
Listen while Mark discusses a hospital’s announcement that it’s closing down its physician joint venture ASC. Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?
Obviously as the baby boomer generation is getting older, there are more and more physicians using the “R” word, “retirement.”
Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?
Earlier this year, I read a news piece on a health system in Memphis called Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare that had announced that it would be closing the joint venture ASC that it operates in concert with over one hundred physician partners.
Ride along with Mark as he shares an important lesson from a decades old issue of a children’s magazine. It’s 100% applicable to you.
Ride along with Mark and ponder the question of whether you’d buy your own business or medical practice if it were for sale today. Come on, tell the truth.
The speed limit’s 70 mph. I’m not going to tell you how fast I’m going, but I’m going with the flow of traffic, which is traveling at a lot more than the speed limit. Would a defense of, “but everyone is speeding” actually work?
In the Wild West days of the 1980s and 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see as many medical directors receiving stipends from a hospital as there are aspirins in a Costco-size bottle.
How quickly and effectively does your medical group make decisions? Both decisions that are proactive and those that are reactive? I’m by no means assuming that your medical group is broken. What I am assuming is that, no matter how it’s structured, there’s room to improve its governance structure. [If you haven’t read it yet, […]