title: Ties that bind.
abstract: As doctors jump at offers from practice managers, many ignore business basics. But even a good lawyer can't cover everything. "No matter how carefully you make an agreement with one company, if it is swallowed up by another, it can be very different than you anticipated," says a doctor who sold his Southern California network only to be fired after a change in owners. "You could go to bed with Albert Schweitzer and wake up with Attila the Hun."
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authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003657:Decision Making; D004651:Employment; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015141:Los Angeles; D010067:Ownership; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011362:Professional Corporations / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States