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The War Is On: Why Your Medical Staff Needs to Incorporate and Obtain Its Own Independent Counsel
Safety In Hospital-Choice: Always Practice At More Than One Hosptal
"Don't get me wrong, I know it can happen anywhere. We're doing
OK, but are hardly attractive for takeover, due to our location and, uh, patient deomgraphics. Still, like I said, I'll keep
those other licenses (present and future) active."
watched a rural hospital (just "taken over" by the gorilla hospital down the highway) sham peer review
out a local surgeon who had been there 15+ yrs....replaced by a "recent grad" from the big gorilla who referred the "difficult"
cases back to the gorilla. He was salaried (at a much higher rate then the locals). It's amazing how many sheep are out there...
Under Defense: Click here.
I totally agree. That's why I'm going locums, until I can find another way to make money or at least diversify my income....
I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but this is no longer a secure profession...
I guess I'm lucky. I appear to be valued where I am, and it is pretty much my native area to begin with.
Then again, rural critical access hospitals don't have many surgeons knocking on their doors voluntarily. Administration doesn't
mess with me, and I just try to stay busy, so everyone is pretty much satisfied. I am licensed in an adjoining state that
has a need for surgeons (as does my current one), so I've got plenty of options if the water gets too choppy here. Still,
I might look at getting a license in one or two more states while I'm thinking about it, it's money well spent.
"My brother is in business and ALWAYS had an exit strategy. He continuously networked with others when on
trips, had a large referral base, and constantly kept up to date with which business was hiring, downsizing, etc. Medicine
is now big business, real big business, and those of us who are employed need to take the same approach. When my position
became tenuous in one hospital I applied for a license in another state to improve my job prospects (my wife was considering
the other state due to family). When it got back to the clinic manager, I quickly lost my position, and wound up unemployed
for the months it took to credential. So, forget the online CME- go to the conferences, go to your specialty meetings. Get
a license in each state that you might want to move to- you just might have to, and you are 6 months ahead in the game. For
employed docs, a new CEO or clinic manager is a very risky time- if it feels bad, trust your feelings. If you have good reveiws,
keep copies of them, because I guarantee there will be a stack of bad ones when they're ready to flush you down the toilet."
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Can 600,000 Lemmings Be Wrong?
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