One or Two Snakes

[orthodoc]

Doctors are notoriously terrible businesspeople. It's not what we trained to do; the business-oriented among us are the minority. These days, businesses hire doctors and use them up, throw them out, and look for fresh meat. I'd say business tends to give people (patients) the business.

God knows my experience working under a non-physician 'manager' was worse than the zombie apocalypse.

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Originally Posted by orthodoc

[____________] are notoriously terrible businesspeople. It's not what we trained to do; the business-oriented among us are the minority. These days, businesses hire [____________] and use them up, throw them out, and look for fresh meat. I'd say business tends to give people (patients) the business.

IT specialists, musicians, cooks, teachers, athletes, etc, etc, etc. I've often been asked why I don't hang out my own shingle and freelance as an IT mercenary. Your quote is why. I know my stuff, and I know my stuff is not Business Administration. I could be/have been, perhaps, I never studied it. But I have tried working for myself many times over the years from being my own "boss" as a paperboy, buying my papers wholesale from my distributor and selling them to my customers at a profit, to moonlighting as a computer expert, and other jobs in between. I'm a competent computerer, but I suck at running a business. I don't think your observation is valid only for doctors.

Originally Posted by orthodoc

God knows my experience working under a non-physician 'manager' was worse than the zombie apocalypse.

Likewise, I've had experience working for managers that didn't really have a clue about what the computer could deliver, but that often didn't stop them from asking. Combining that ignorance with time and money restrictions made for some epic fantasies about what could and couldn't happen.