On Wednesday 30 August 2006 03:24, Tim Churches wrote: > > Welcome to the big bad world of commerce and private enterprise. It is > > actually quite hard to make a buck (and keep it) isn't it? So when you > > are in business, it pays to take a commercial view of things and make > > decisions based on business sense, rather than fanciful notions and > > nostalgia > > Hands up those who hanker after the days when medicine, nursing and > allied health were still "the caring professions", instead of businesses.
My practice is a caring place, and we as caring professionals provide a caring service. We do not see ourselves as a "business", though we need to ensure enough cashflow to keep the staff happy enough to continue the good work. Medicine is peculiar in that business aspects definitely come a distant second. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
