The joys of monopoly
The article on the 70-year anniversary of the founding of Quincy Medical Group left me with more questions than answers.
1. What's so special about 70, anyway? Ok, it's a round number and a slow news week, but other than that?
2. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the QMG is only 19 years old, not 70, since before 1988 there was no QMG, but rather two competing entities?
3. Wouldn't it have been interesting to get a viewpoint from some of the few, very few, independent physicians left in town about how wonderful QMG is, seeing as how they are the ones most directly affected by this behemoth? Instead of getting some bland remarks from people inside the group as to how eliminating competition has been a great boon for the community?
4. And seriously, what's to celebrate about the creation of one dominant medical office that overwhelms and puts great pressure on any competitors?
On another subject, I'm afraid I jumped the gun on linking to "Quincy News Critics"....I think I'll wait a while to link to that blog until it proves its worth. And speaking of links...Quincy Pilgrim, what happened? We hardly knew ye.
1. What's so special about 70, anyway? Ok, it's a round number and a slow news week, but other than that?
2. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the QMG is only 19 years old, not 70, since before 1988 there was no QMG, but rather two competing entities?
3. Wouldn't it have been interesting to get a viewpoint from some of the few, very few, independent physicians left in town about how wonderful QMG is, seeing as how they are the ones most directly affected by this behemoth? Instead of getting some bland remarks from people inside the group as to how eliminating competition has been a great boon for the community?
4. And seriously, what's to celebrate about the creation of one dominant medical office that overwhelms and puts great pressure on any competitors?
On another subject, I'm afraid I jumped the gun on linking to "Quincy News Critics"....I think I'll wait a while to link to that blog until it proves its worth. And speaking of links...Quincy Pilgrim, what happened? We hardly knew ye.
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 4:32 AM
15 Comments:
Lot of merit in your topic (especially the vanishing indie phys.) but you also raise the implicit point of when is it premature to link another blog and when has it come time to whack a link.
I addressed this in a post this month but don't know that I came to any useful conclusions. T'was good to know someone else feels my pain.
Continued Success
When you cut a link, I guess that depends on the content and response it gets when there is a post.
As for QMG are they really 70 years old I think they have gone through several incarnations and it is a stretch to call the 70 year history of a physicians group a real milestone. iy's kind of like saying that the mall and legion Town and Country Shopping Center are the same company. Or that because Kmart and Sears are the same thing that Lmart can use Roebuck's History.
Geez I can't flipping type
You are right to not link the new Harold Wig link. This guy has no clue what is going on and how newspaper deadlines work. The Bentler story was done under pressure well after the press had rolled. Had he bothered to check The Whig's Web site later he would have seen a much more updated story.
At least you have a clue about what you are talking about. Keep up the regular postings and you'll develop a good following.
Hi Rodney
The Whig works as so : Cutting edge news with the power and force of a SPIT BALL !
The LAST GOOD reporter you had in news Dir At WGEM !
That is how the WHIG works .
They should let Crim take his gloves off and then WE WOULD HAVE NEWS !
The Whig is one giant tampon fest of mostly BAD writing !
Sorry News Bender, I just haven't had the time (or inclination) to work on the blog. It's a lazy a$$ thing with me, I suppose. :)
Even Hart mentioned it to me at some story we were both covering.
I promise to try and do better and get some regular posting going, I'll let you know and you can put me back on the list.
Anonymous said...
You are right to not link the new Harold Wig link. This guy has no clue what is going on and how newspaper deadlines work
Dear Dumbass anon poster,
My point was, the sentence was a forgone conclusion. Deadlines? That is what YOU use in the bars or or a good definition of the headline used that day. My point was the headline was not Bentler sentenced, duh no shit! The headline should have been about the emotion of the family.
PS I don't care about deadlines. Now take your little whiney ass and write some intelligent commentary.
Rocky Cola does feel like the ugly girl at the dance. Wish I had a link.
Great post...QMG will never get critical coverage...too many rich folk involved with it. And we know how rich folk get covered in quincy news.
Oops, guilty as charged, Rocky. Fixed.
I fixed "atntf" link too !
I been busy but the 3rd cup of starbucks kicked tookie into over drive !
Tell ya what ..BJH in STL has a coffe shoppee that makes a great cup of JOE for $1.75
Speaking of Joe, I'll get you linked as soon as Lootie tells me how again. We're still waiting for Harold.
When I think of QMG, I think of people going out of the city for operations in Springfield, STL or columbia. I think of an organization that has been convicted in a court of law of double billing their clients.
Have you ever got the feeling that QMG's approach to health care is based solely on their patient's lack of better health care choices?
Since when did athletic trainers who stand on the sidelines at sporting events, wrap bandages around joints, and ice knees and ankles of athletes who injure themselves during competition suddently become Sport-Specific Trainers??
As a fitness professional, my job is to train athletes to become better athletes. I find it strange that QMG feels that their athletic trainers are properly trained in my profession. This is typical of QMG, whose 3 athletic trainers were together for a year before I arrived and then developed the Competitive Edge Program (sport-specific). Only an organization with lack of class and integrity would hire someone for the sole purpose of taking ownership of his ideas and kicking him out the door, denying him unemployment, and attempting to smear his reputation in the process.
Wayne Hughes
ACE/CPT
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