I see zombies every day. More physicians don’t question the promises of employment.

Mark Weiss interviews Mike Hicks, the CEO of EmCare Anesthesia Services.

For the most part, physicians are stuck in a Marxian world of reimbursement.

Eighteen wheelers speed down the highway, the second or third or fourth following way too closely for my comfort as they are sucked along, “drafting” off the the truck in front of them.

Is there a disconnect between the physician and the hospital?

Money. Future. Status. Popularity. The four human interest motivators.

The is no real security in depending upon a pseudo-parent employer.

Letting each partner write his or her terms of partnership is not a long term strategy for success.

“From a dog’s point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.” – Mabel L. Robinson

“Mark, it’s not what you said, it’s how you said it.”