[Moses]

I first entered private practice as a junior partner of an established doctor. He didn't want to pay me a salary, so I borrowed money from the bank to pay my bills during my first year. The doctor needed a partner to provide call coverage for him when he was out of town, but he didn't want any financial risk. Fair enough. We agreed to keep finances separate.

I caught my partners secretary moving patients from my schedule to his. Of course she was only "stealing" patients with good insurance plans. I talked to my partner about the problem and he agreed to fix the problem. During the next three months, they continued to take patients from me and even deposited checks written to me into their account!

I left the practice four months after joining it and I opened my own office. Within six months I was busier than my ex partner. Within a year he was out of business. He left town and is practicing somewhere else...as a junior partner. What goes around, comes around.