Mba For Doctor, CA Osteopathic Schools

Q: What do doktorz need MBA for?... To keep track if your $700/hour bill is keeping up with inflation? How too"milk" the system for more cash? How to do taxes and use loop-holes to keep more of the greed-earned money?

A:I think that the word you are looking for is Ignorant with a capital I! Has the thought of healthcare management ever crossed your mind? Would it be better to have a doctor making decisions for the health care industry or an ignorant politician. Maybe thinking about what you say would help a lot. I'm assuming you're saying that the U of I MBA is bad. I'm not sure. I'm not in the program, I was just telling everyone we have one. No, I just cut out a picture of someone I thought was cool and put it on my web page. Just kidding. Of course it's me. The problem with medicine is that in that past, a lot of doctors were basically running their own businesses. They were "small businesses" that were poorly mismanaged from a business standpoint. However, it didn't really matter, since they were making a lot of money. However, with the advent of HMO's (which I think are a good thing in principle in that now many more people have access to health care), doctor's became, in essence, "salesmen" of the health insurance companies. What doctors became involved in is now the insurance business...delivering upon premiums. The problem with medicine now is that there really are too many strict business people with no medical background making decisions, and there's a tendency to overemphazie cost-cutting over the care of the patients. If we look at the two factors of cost-cutters (the people running HMO's) and the patient advocates (the doctors), then we see that there really could be use for doctors

with backgrounds in business. What the patient advocates (the doctors), as a group, lack is enough knowledge to make sound business decisions. Before the advent of HMO's, it was okay, since doctors still made a lot. However, times have changed, but doctors as a group still lack the business know-how in order to make strategic decisions to better advocate the concerns of the patients. Basically, doctors are allowing the HMO exectives to make the decisions...Why? Because they have no business knowledge that they can rely on to confront the executives. I really think that we should have more doctors with MBA's. The medical field has been sorely lacking in them for ages.