The death of CEO Michael Kasper, an 'unusually gifted and kind' leader, leaves DuPage Medical Group at a crossroads

In recent years, small independent doctors’ groups — where owners actually treat patients — have been disappearing, increasingly consigned to a sepia-toned era of care alongside Marcus Welby. Faced with mounting costs, shifting regulations and burdensome billing requirements, physicians have been joining larger hospital systems that promise to handle it all for them.