Principles of practice-selection, protection, and satisfaction:
Always have at least two independent practice-sites.
From Sermo.com: "Once you become a physician, will
it bother you that all of your medical decisions will be usurped by a clerk at Blue Cross..."--see Sermo.com for the full
message protected by the copyright law.
"It is obvious that an independent physician community is the greatest economic threat
to the health insurance-hospital industrial complex."
(See www.uapd.com' for a discussion of an administrator's threatening a doctor for refusing to give narcotics to a board
member without examining the "patient" (See Physician Connect" on www.MedScape.com), and www.aapsonline.org.)