Back when I was in business school, I interviewed for a job at a health care consulting firm. During one of the interviews, a partner there told me that there isn’t too much difference between running a hospital and running a fast food restaurant. This person said that in the first case you provide health care and in the second case you provide hamburgers and fries. Of note, the partner was relatively new to health care and had never directly taken care of patients. Take a wild guess which industry the partner used to be in before moving into health care.

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