Albert Fuchs: “Even the best medical schools give short shrift to practice management. So a doctor can emerge as a skilled diagnostician without a clue how to run a business that serves consumers. In fact, many physicians find it distasteful to think of medicine as a business at all. They feel that it’s their mission to serve as many patients as possible rather than to provide the best care possible. Most significant, today’s doctors are preoccupied with the bureaucracy of insurance companies, so much so that they’ve lost the simple logic of the doughnut shop model.”
(via WSJ Health Blog)
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Thanks for the plug!
I believe in everyword that Doctor Fuchs said. I notice that he is in Beverly Hills and am sure that many will say “Sure that works in Beverly Hills, but it will not work in any ordinary community”. But there are doctors doing right here in my community in the deep south with below average income.
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