Should I keep him or not.......

[NottinghamChicks]

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Lack of communication, follow through, and professionalism. I would leave.

 

[welsummerchicks]

A lot of doctors are having to join health care organizations and work for a big corporation.

What happens is the organization handles the rates, billing, and a whole lot of things. The doctors have very little control over how the business is run. The hospital is usually just one part of the business, the rest is the clinics and practices the organization also takes.

The little independent ones, they can hardly do a thing.

One of my friends worked as a doctor for a health clinic, during that time she did not get a raise in ten years. TEN years! Their little clinic could not hold up to the 'care organizations'.

They also got into all sorts of issues if they did not join up, for example, when their patient went into the hospital they could not even walk in the door, they could have nothing to do with the patient unless they carried specific insurance which cost about 50,000 dollars a year extra per doctor which let them go into the hospital.

So after all kids of frustrations and being kicked in the tail finanically for a long time they finally gave in and hoined the organization. And then while they lose a lot of say in how the business is run they are not being drug down the drain. Don't kid yourself - there is no big raise or anything. It is more like either be able to do business or not.

When this hit a lot of doctors around quit - they tried to go into software development or law or something else.

What I am saying is maybe not blame the doctor, because a lot of the things - in fact most of them, they are usually out of the doctor's control.

GP's are not allowed to do hardly anything now - a specialist has to do it.