“Partner seniors” just won’t do.
By Marc Rosenberg
The Rosenberg Practice Management Library
A great episode from an old, award-winning TV show, “M*A*S*H,” is relevant here. The two stars, Hawkeye and Trapper, are captains and doctors serving in the Korean War. They drive to a nearby military base on business. They have brought with them the timid but highly effective company clerk, Corporal Radar O’Reilly.
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The mischievous captains decide to stop at an officers’ club for a drink, but Radar tells them he can’t enter because he’s not an officer. Hawkeye, ever the schemer, comes up with a solution. He takes one of his captain’s bars and pins it on Radar’s lapel, and the threesome enter the club.
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