A Day at the Office: Is Private Practice Orthopaedic Surgery Dead?

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In referring to the state of the physician workforce, so-called experts have argued that private practice of medicine is on “life-support” or should even be considered an endangered species [3, 4]. It has also been argued that the increasing administrative burdens of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are too much for the private physician group to endure [2]. Are private practice physicians simply holding on to an antiquated model that cannot survive in the new healthcare paradigm? Should we embrace this belief and abandon ship? Should we leave private practice for the seemingly greener pastures of hospital employment? …