Physician Relations: Now More Than Ever (Searching for Satisfaction‪)‬

The pressures facing physicians today come in many forms. Declining reimbursement (with news of more to come in 2008) has physicians searching for alternative sources of income--a search that often leads to ventures that can cannibalize existing hospital services. Specialty hospitals and their perceived and real threat to the viability of the community hospitals are perhaps the most visible manifestation of that pressure, but office installations of nuclear scanners, CT scanners and MRI's are even more prevalent.