title: Financial implications of serving as team physician.
abstract: Time is the greatest negative financial burden that you accept as a sports medicine physician, because the only way to produce revenue as a physician is with your time. This cost measured in time of doing business as a team physician can be high. Unless being a team physician is very rewarding to you through personal satisfaction or the other intangible indirect benefits associated with the role, being a team physician may not be a good financial decision for you as a person and a physician, or for your practice and your family.
authors.affiliation: Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA. jkonin@health.usf.edu <jkonin@health.usf.edu>
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lemak
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000191:economics; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D013178:Sports Medicine / Q000191:economics*