“It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.” – E. F. Schumacher
Aspiring to and then becoming an equal partner in a private practice has been the preponderant norm until recently. But a trend for the latest generation of ophthalmologists is for more of them to remain an associate rather than moving on to ownership or to be only a small, fractional owner in a corporate practice.
There are numerous drivers for this:
Unlike partners who have it all — a vote in the