Opinion | Questions You Should Be Asking About How Your Physician Group Works
Pines and Aldeen are emergency medicine physicians and leaders of a physician-owned emergency medicine group. Emergency physicians experience burnout at three times the rate of the average doctor. A common refrain underlying this is that corporatization by so-called contract management groups (CMGs) interferes with the physician-patient relationship and erodes the specialty. Acerbic posts in the […]
‘We May or May Not Ever Get Paid’: What We Heard This Week
“All we knew is that we may or may not ever get paid.” — Joel Hansford, MD, a partner at physician-owned staffing firm EM-Staff, on the 10 emergency physicians who went unpaid for three months by a regional hospital for shifts they worked in April. “We haven’t figured out yet how to vaccinate people through […]