title: Healers & dealers.
abstract: While some physicians aggressively seek opportunities to build lucrative business ventures, others resist the intrusion of business issues and risks into their practices. A key to success is ensuring a good fit between an organization's business model and its physician's professional values and business dispositions. This article describes how to assess physicians' readiness for business risk, and it provides a framework for evaluating different business models in light of the professional values and business risk profiles of the organization's physicians. Finally the article provides a roadmap for actions to close gaps between the demands of the business model and the business dispositions of its physicians.
authors.affiliation: Sibson & Company, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gallo
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008486:Physician Executives; D012307:Risk Factors