Medical professionals entering the workforce today face a rapidly evolving, and continuously changing, healthcare landscape. Because of this, healthcare professionals, and especially physicians, must grapple with a unique set of challenges – fewer independent medical practices, rising compliance and administrative burdens, and reduced independence, among many others. Increased, and still increasing, consolidation has afforded hospitals and health systems greater bargaining power in the employment marketplace. Physicians preparing to enter into employment arrangements face one of the most important decisions of their professional lives – and a challenging set of legal, financial, and ethical considerations. (more…)