Health

with a lot of dead weight. In Radiology we made a bucket load of profit for the hospital..
Housekeeping....not so much but they have to be paid.
People get outraged about the $2 aspirin. Yes you can buy it cheaper in the drug store but think about it.
The doctor orders you aspirin. Who pulls the order off the chart? The ward clerck.
Who pays her? The pharmacy gets the order and fills it.
Who filled the order in the pharmacy?
How did did it get to the floor?
who administered it. All those people don't work for free.
ergo, the $2 aspirin.
Big diagnostic toys are expensive and if you want to be competitive in the market place you need the toys. Doc's who bring $$$ into the hospital go where there are the best toys..
Look at little rural hospitals closing b/c they don't have the equipment that doctors want and need to do their job... No revenue b/c of poor management?
A fine line between profit, break even and loss... A quandary for sure...
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