Doctor works for hospital?No

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Unless he has a contract with the hospital or is on salary there or

some other monetary agreement........he is NOT an employee of theirs

or works FOR them........He has priviledges there.

They work TOGETHER........many hospital boards(all I know of) have

physicans on their governing boards. Of course if there is not

another hospital in the area they are kinda STUCK unless they want to

Move......Not an easy thing to do.

Hospitals unfortunately are forced to make decisions based on the

funding they receive from contracts with the goverment(IE

medicare,Medicaid,Occupation rehab and the like). If they dont comply

they can be in serious legal and financial troubles.

The aged population is the fasted growing

consumer of health care so it is a GIVEN medicare is controlling

much of the actions hospitals are forced to take.

It is no secret Durham Regional has or was bordering on financial

concerns when they were leased by Duke was it 2 years ago?

Wasn't it a public hospital before then?

Many public hospitals (that take a ton of charity) have been forced

to go to for profit.

I don't know if this is the case for Durham. All I care about is IF

the care is still good. From what I have heard........only one nasty

nurse in all the posts. NOw that says something. Everyone seems

satisfied except the one post I mentioned above.

Outcomes of patients are great indicators of how well the hospital is

faring. If they can run it

efficiently and keep the doors open by having patients keep coming

back BECAUSE it was a safe environment that means more than French

food( Yes some hospitals serve it in the US) or fancy rooms.

Doctors work for PATIENTS. Hospitals are there to serve patients by

allowing drs priviledges to work there. These are not easy to get nor

keep. I seriously doubt that DR R works FOR them.

MiniGastricBypass (AT) e, " " wrote:>

What do they consider " elective " things that are not medically

> necessary????????? Is there a list? Who would know?

>

>

>

> In MiniGastricBypass (AT) e, Joanne Young wrote:

> > Also, hospitals can not allow Medicaid for elective procedures,

> which the MGB

> > is. they must take it for emergencies. Joanne

> >

> > Theresa Somers wrote:

> >

> > > Hi ..

> > >

> > > Not a problem... Yes.. The hospital can tell the Dr's what

they

> can and

> > > cannot do because the Dr's only work FOR the hospital.. Dr R

only

> has

> > > control over his office.. As far as the other Dr's in NC doing

> this surgery,

> > > I still need to call there is still one I need to call tomorrow

> but, i am

> > > expecting lots of information through snail nail this week.. I

> will let you

> > > know what I find out..

> > >

> > > In my thoughts and prayers,

> > >

> > > Terri

> > >

> > > >Terri, thanks for informing me....since i have been offline

> for so long

> > > >i

> > > >did not so that it was the hospital that has told the doctor

to

> stop taking

> > > >medacaid.....i had no idea that a hospital could do

this.....can

> they

> > > >really

> > > >refuse care ????? by one of the e-mails that i read, it

sounded

> like the

> > > >doctor, did not want to take medacaid any more because it did

> not pay

> > > >enough.....i guess it is always 2 different stories...what i

> should of done

> > > >before posting was call the hospital first to find

out....which

> i think is

> > > >what i will do....this way i will feel better..and i will know

> what i am

> > > >talking about before i post.... it is just not fair...please

me

> me

> > > >posted.....michelle...and thanks for setting me straight

> > >

> > > " But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to

those

> who hate

> > > you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat

> you. " - Luke

> > > 6:27-28

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