You don't directly pay the doctor, you pay the practice or hospital. Employees are people who you hire and pay directly. Doctors are employees of the organisation you're paying, not your employees.
Lawyers and roofers don't fill out applications to work for you either, by the way, and roofers are usually contractors, not employees.
OP is actually more or less right. You're employing the organization, who employs the doctors. Doctor does a bad job, complain to the employer, file a complaint, refuse to ever go back.
No, you are a customer of the organisation. "Customer" and "employer" are not synonymous. I agree that what you described is a good way to handle it, though.
If you think you are the 'customer', you will begin to follow the mindset that you have no control over what you 'purchase'. You think you only have so many 'brands' to choose from, and that is the bottom line.
On the other hand, if you follow the 'employer' mindset, you realize you DO have control over your situation. You are NOT subjugated to just a few 'brands' because you begin to realize purchasing services is not like purchasing toilet paper. You are the master in this mindset, and you don't have to do what you don't want to, and you don't have to put up with rough toilet paper OR shitty doctors.
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You don't directly pay the doctor, you pay the practice or hospital. Employees are people who you hire and pay directly. Doctors are employees of the organisation you're paying, not your employees.
Lawyers and roofers don't fill out applications to work for you either, by the way, and roofers are usually contractors, not employees.
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You're fighting a losing battle here, they just don't seem to get it. Best to forget about it and move on (:
OP is actually more or less right. You're employing the organization, who employs the doctors. Doctor does a bad job, complain to the employer, file a complaint, refuse to ever go back.
That'll get the moneybags attention.
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No, you are a customer of the organisation. "Customer" and "employer" are not synonymous. I agree that what you described is a good way to handle it, though.
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It's all based on "perspective".
If you think you are the 'customer', you will begin to follow the mindset that you have no control over what you 'purchase'. You think you only have so many 'brands' to choose from, and that is the bottom line.
On the other hand, if you follow the 'employer' mindset, you realize you DO have control over your situation. You are NOT subjugated to just a few 'brands' because you begin to realize purchasing services is not like purchasing toilet paper. You are the master in this mindset, and you don't have to do what you don't want to, and you don't have to put up with rough toilet paper OR shitty doctors.
I follow the latter view. ^_^