Shouldn't a dentist own a dental office?

So how did that work out?  Must dentists have offices?

Owning the physical plant and practicing dentistry or medicine are two different animals.

I had a private medical practice for many years in the US ( I owned it) and let me tell you with the current climate I would only practice if working for someone else.  The hassles and problems of running an office between regulations, insurance companies, office staff, rent, insurance and on and certainly cut into my time leaving much less of it to practice medicine which is all I wanted to do.  So if some corporation owned the practice and allowed me to practice medicine I would jump at it in a heart beat.

Besides Doctors and Dentists are good at what they were trained for and not necessarily good business people.  Leave the business aspects to the business experts and the practice of medicine/dentistry to those trained to be experts in their field.

Bob K

You know this was from 2009, right?

Nope never read the header. Only answered the question.  Guess I did not have enough coffee yet

Bob K

Bob K wrote:

Owning the physical plant and practicing dentistry or medicine are two different animals.

I had a private medical practice for many years in the US ( I owned it) and let me tell you with the current climate I would only practice if working for someone else.  The hassles and problems of running an office between regulations, insurance companies, office staff, rent, insurance and on and certainly cut into my time leaving much less of it to practice medicine which is all I wanted to do.  So if some corporation owned the practice and allowed me to practice medicine I would jump at it in a heart beat.

Besides Doctors and Dentists are good at what they were trained for and not necessarily good business people.  Leave the business aspects to the business experts and the practice of medicine/dentistry to those trained to be experts in their field.

Bob K

I agree.  In PA the hospitals are either buying out the practices or hiring the doctors as employees for the hospital.  The doctors are earning more money but a monopoly is forming which can only hurt the consumers.  The way some of the remaining practices are managed and reported are terrible.