Small-town family practitioners joining together to form a medical group

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each business form for:   Two (2) small-town family practitioners joining together to form a medical group?

 

b)        A big city hospital establishing a jointly-owned MRI facility with its specialists?

 

2.        What factors would be relevant in making your recommendation?

 

3.        What information would you need to get from each of the two groups?