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1. Look before you leap. CHECK. 2. Measure twice, cut once.  CHECK. 3. Document your deal with your partners before commencing joint practice. WHAT?

It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting.

You’ve heard that old expression to the effect that it’s better to do and then ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission in the first place.

"How do you become a millionaire? Make a billion dollars and then buy an airline." -- Warren Buffett

Measurement of “care” will soon count for more than care itself.

I'm no enemy of fast food. I just don't want to eat it. I don't care if you do. I wouldn't make it illegal. But some mayors would.

A friend told me about his old boss, a guy who thought he was sending a message of his own importance by showing up late to meetings with his clients.

They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Many medical groups (actually, many of all sorts of businesses) shortchange their future as a result of their past.

Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician.

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Would you rather have one marshmallow now, or two tomorrow?

If, as I’ve written before and as we’re now beginning to see, a hospital need not have beds, then what’s the difference between a hospital (which physicians can’t develop as a Medicare facility) and an ASC?

An Alternative Structure for Medical Group Compensation by Mark F. Weiss

It's Friday night. After leaving the restaurant you turn onto the sidewalk and walk down the street. Ah, an art gallery! You wander inside.

All events, lead directly to the success, or ultimate demise of a group.

July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, celebrates the original 13 colonies’ declaration, in 1776, of their independence from Great Britain.

Contracts exist so all the information can be located in one convenient place. It’s easier to enforce an agreement, when you can find all the details easily.

The new Chevy Spark is probably the most efficient car currently available, delivering an average 119 combined city MPG. The Nissan Versa 1.6S, the least expensive vehicle currently available, averages at around $11,990. Are you a value buyer? Or a price buyer?

You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.

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Medical groups have two problems: They move too slow and do what everyone else does.

Why hospitals are destroying themselves, and setting their CEOs up for termination, when they bring in national groups and “contract management companies.”

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