tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post4222525902411246472..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: A Sale of One Residency Program - the Commercialization of Health Care and now Residents Treated Like "Assets" Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-55387570198781428442019-08-13T09:57:04.124-04:002019-08-13T09:57:04.124-04:00And the portents aren't good. "Adrift in ...And the portents aren't good. "Adrift in a sea of commercialization" is apt, and so many MDs have, now more than ever, taken a position of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." With the aid of consultants, mid-size to large physician groups start themselves behaving like VCs and hedge funds. With the rush to bigness, they simply angle for the best merger deals. Cetonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03338429179241447924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-68831447725605806532019-08-10T03:40:13.835-04:002019-08-10T03:40:13.835-04:00Roy, in the years when we were residents we were &...Roy, in the years when we were residents we were "assets" as well. We were cheap labor the hospitals, which then were largely independent entities, not large multi-hospital behemoths.<br /><br />It seems like these recent developments are the logical outcome of the trainee abuses of the past, which never really were addressed. <br /><br />I don't know what the answer is, but I wouldInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.com