ABSTRACT
Physicians’ relationships with the many different facets of the healthcare industry can be complicated and can present a wide variety of ethical and moral considerations. Physicians must also learn how to treat people with respect, but they also need to be addressed with respect themselves. Physicians need to take leadership and ownership of the quality of service and even the financial aspects of patient hospital and clinic flow and patient billing. Healthcare organizations need to embrace the transition of physicians from clinical to administrative work because, at the end of the day, physicians study to become what they are because they believe in patient care and healthcare. Hospital administration needs to perform strongly in recruiting and retaining physicians by sharing with the physicians a culture that is good for the administration, for the hospital, and for the patient. Some physicians derive indirect recognition from their relationship with a “first-quality” institution, whether academic or clinical.
