Michael Gerber , in his book The E-myth Physician, says that doctors can assume three basic roles: technicians, managers or entrepreneurs.
A 2013 AMA report notes that 53.2 percent of all physicians surveyed were self-employed, and 60 percent of physicians worked in practices wholly owned by physicians. More and more doctors are becoming employees of hospital systems. Most of the latter will be techicians. Most of the former, independent physicians, will have to move up the value chain, being entrepreneurs, to thrive,let alone survive.
