[JumpCrisscross]

> Am I supposed to have any respect for somebody selling out their employees and patients to vampires so they can retire to a beach

Nobody else will buy it. The alternatives are shutting down the practice or forcing oneself to keep working. Particularly in medicine, the latter is dangerous.

> solution I'd want to see for situations like this is to find a way to sell to the people who have a continuing interest in how the business is run

Sounds like a buy-out strategy! Seriously. Berkshire Hathaway could negotiate good deal terms by making this promise.

[pitaj]

> Nobody else will buy it. The alternatives are shutting down the practice or forcing oneself to keep working. Particularly in medicine, the latter is dangerous.

Can't you just hire a "CEO" who will take over all management responsibilities?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Can't you just hire a "CEO" who will take over all management responsibilities

You, the retiring doctor, hire a manager whose job it is to hire another doctor? Do you not see why this works at scale but for one practice?