Can doctors become good managers as hospitals are becoming bussness nowdays !

It is difficult to support or oppose  the view, doctors are good administrators.

Right from diagnosis to plan of treatment which includes investigation a doctor plans every thing, which comes under Planing.To admit the patient or to call him/her for a review after a few days is again planned by the doctor.

The line of treatment when the patient is admitted or second opinion is all a part of the strategy plan.The time of discharge and the line of treatment at the time of discharge is again planned by the doctors.

But as a layman will say, these are the things already priscribed in medical books, and have been implemented upon many times.

But there are places where we doctors do need some improvement special in business development, as a lot of doctors still see business promotions and marketing as a non ethical part of medicine.

What we should understand is that management does not only include managing patient and and to cure them, management is a very vast field, where we have to deal with individuals having different background,thought,culture,upbringing, education etc etc.

The argument is such that it can go on and on....

Now a days Hospitals running is a most popular business.  They earn lakhs of rupees by collecting and demanding heavy fees from the needy and sicky patients who suffers a lot.  Diagnosisation, Lab bills, radiography, scanning, CT & MRI every thing is very costly.  These hospitals are purchased these machinery at a subsidized rates as medical equipments are exempted from sales tax etc but these Hosp administrators are charging heavy and local administration is also giving tax exemption for hospitals but the hospitals are charge huge money.  My sincere request is Hospitals income & expenses must be audited and impose strict rules on various fees

YES & NO!!!! Qualities like Management or even entrepreneurship are inborn irrespective of the profession you choose on the basis of your educational background. If you are a capable manager you will do well in any field. So why not!! Running a hospital smoothly is no different from running any other business efficiently. Experts of the same field will definitely be able to manage it more precisely. But also it means that qualified as doctor cannot be the ONLY criteria for becoming good managers!!

I have seen around ten deaths in close quarters and what I found was hipocracy on the part of friends/relatives and ignorance and irresponsibility on the part of doctors.  if all hospital deaths are investigated for "murder" and if insurance ceiling is considered a "motive", Indian courts will have lacs more of murder cases.  

I have no doubt that doctors and hospitals are businessmen and business establishments already and are doing a good job in these spheres.  

I have my own doubts whether they are doctors in the first place.  If you go deep into every brain haemhorrage and massive heart attack cases, you will find that the expert doctor of the hospital for these ailments was never in the vicinity!!  Medical personnel who attended on the nearth death person at his final moments would mostly be para medics and amateur doctors.  

This is one of the reasons I am advocating in many platforms that an expert should do only such jobs where he is an expert.  Our doctors do everything else first.

Sorry - I have great respect for knowledgeable healthcare personnel but not for ignorant ones who take shelter under medical terms for death of a person.

I second this idea (see IDEA below - Management Training IS inculcated through Medical Graduate training, though not as a part of the Curriculum).