2013 might be the watershed year for small private practices.
There may be some possibility for survival if they can band together-- and AC and Updox might be a ticket.
Trouble is, seems like most of the private docs would rather just give up and join the hospital as a white-collar wage slave -- without even the protection of a union.

I really don't understand what is going on; I can't figure out what modern doctors are thinking. I'm almost 70, and the world of medical practice is a foreign land-- I feel like a dinosaur just before the K-T event (they didn't know it was coming, either, but in the dinosaurs' case case it wasn't willful ignorance!)
Why would anyone give up independence?
Why did our forebears bother to fight a revolution?


Tom Duncan
Family Practice
Astoria OR