The truth of the matter is weather we like it or not, the hospital is a means of livelihood for not just the Doctors but also the nurses and other staffs. Yes they are saving lives but it is still a source of income to them.
Should a hosptal be approached as a business!
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When you are talking about hospital establishment, there is public one owned by the government whose aim is to deliver modern health care programs.
There is also private hospital owned by private physician whose objective is to provide healthcare services with the expectation of making profit thereof.
Consequently, we can say private hospital is a business.
There is also private hospital owned by private physician whose objective is to provide healthcare services with the expectation of making profit thereof.
Consequently, we can say private hospital is a business.
Hospitals should not be approached as a business. Remember you pledge your aligence to save life and that should be your major aim. I am a doctor in my country, I'd rather save life first regardless of the profit I stand to gain or loose.
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My take is that they should be a humane approach to the operations of a hospital. There should also be a balance of business approach. Do you know that some patients run away without paying bills after treatment?
I think it depends on the country. There are some countries where ospitals are much more concerned about saving lives than collecting money from people.
It depends on the kind of economic system being run by a country. A socialist economic system allows for only public ownership of property. By so doing, all hospitals in that country are owned by government.
Yeah, most socialist countries have very good working system because the government have control of almost everything. Individuals are not concerned with profit-making.
As far as profit making is the goal, there would always be some elements of seeming wickedness to others but it is not. Money are spent to set up hospitals and must be gotten back with something on top.
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In my country, private hospitals charge patients much more than public hospitals. The cost might be double or triple of what you would be charged on a public hospital.
Health shouldn't be a business. I will always defend that health care is a human right, it shouldn't depend on money. It is a monstrosity let people die because they don't have money, it shows how greedy some doctors can be, they want money, they don't care if they save lives.
Health insurances is just a way to make people pay because you pay the insurance every month and you still have to pay if you go to a private hospital.
Hospital shouldn't be a business!
Health insurances is just a way to make people pay because you pay the insurance every month and you still have to pay if you go to a private hospital.
Hospital shouldn't be a business!
Hospital can be seen as business and can also not been seen as a business. The ownership of the hospital would determine how it could be perceived. Government hospitals are established not for business purposes but to provide modern health care for the public while objective of private hospitals is to make money out of the health care services provided.
A hospital is a place where sick people are treated. If you approach such place as a business, people who can't afford your services immediately may end up dead or not being treated. It is better you put all effort to save lives first and be rewarded later.
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The challenge is the nature of humans and their mischievous ways and motives. You would help some humans and treat them with the hope that they would pay you, they would turn around and stab you in the back.
You can't rule out this character from human beings. Dogs are more grateful than human beings. No matter how you try to satisfy human beings, the insatiable traits in them would not allow them to appreciate your efforts. I have heard a scenario a patient was treated out of pity without deposited, on the condition that when recovery, he would pay. Immediately the patient got heal, he absconded from the clinic. Has he not block others from enjoying same kind gestures in future?.