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The smart medical oncology partnership
Matrix Oncology, Fort Worth, TX
The current environment for medical group practice growth is challenged by a potentially overwhelming set of choices. Unfortunately, the most frequently overlooked, but most essential, variable for the successful management of that practice environment is the personality of the individual doctor. Once a physician has decided that his or her personality is more comfortable in a group instead of a solo environment, then three essential design elements must be accepted in order to achieve a smart medical partnership. Those elements are (1) choosing your partner carefully; (2) creating a non-competitive environment within the group; and (3) obtaining, empowering, and valuing professional management. With those elements firmly in place, an office initially designed to treat patients with chemotherapy will evolve into one designed to deliver total care to patients with cancer. The capacity to experience an emotional, as well as financial, benefit will be enabled by creating a smart medical oncology partnership.
| Commun Oncol 2004;1:226–230 | full text |  127 kb |