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Old 07-15-2017, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by zonerboy View Post
My practice did well enough to allow me to completely retire from medicine at the age of of 55, but thanks for your concern. I am now 74, by the way, and spent the last several years of my career as president of our 12 person anesthesia group.

A good part of my decision to retire involved insurance companies and other non medical entities trying to tell me how I should treat my patients, pharmacies telling me which drugs were "acceptable" and which weren't (based primarily on cost, of course), and hospitals telling me which surgeons I needed to work with and when.

Thank goodness I do not have to work in today's environment

And I don't particularly care what GE thinks.


I concur that i'm pleased not to have to work in today's environment.

In my last position I was responsible for 15 hospitals, and a few dozen owned practices. I can guarantee you that I was one of those telling contracted practices (radiology, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, etc.) what my expectations were.

You were what I called a hospital based practice. If you didn't like the terms of the contract you knew the consequences.

I'll let GE speak for himself, but I suspect you know well where I stand.


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