“The corporate world is not for everyone.” That’s what the executive vice-president of a national Medicare Advantage organization told me at dinner the other night. He was headhunting me to be the executive medical director of their line of Medicare Advantage products. It was a breathtaking offer. With the potential to put another zero on my best year’s pay. But that comment got me thinking. Corporations are largely responsible for the collective affluence in the...

Offered an employment contract? You wouldn’t be human if you weren’t nervous. You had a lawyer look at it. She told you it’s a “standard contract. Nothing out of the ordinary.” So why are you still nervous? Well, you are talking a  three year committment here. Three years plus another year non-compete. And that compensation formula . . . you can’t even begin to figure out what all that means. Maybe instead of that pediatric neurology rotation,...

It was in a meeting of top level executives of a large healthcare delivery organization. I walked in, made and received introductions, and sat back to watch the meeting begin. I instantly knew what was really going on, what the actual objectives were—and that, though my presence served a purpose, I was going to have absolutely no impact on the outcome. Outcome independent, I took a deep breath, relaxed and took it all in. That’s...

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