Medical costs crisis: Part 1. Doctors as culprits, victims--and keys to the solution [0.03%]
医疗费用危机（一）：医生是罪魁祸首，还是受害者，或者解决关键？
S A Schroeder
S A Schroeder
Although the rising cost of US medicine actually reflects the "good news" about the improved quality and availability of health care today, physicians are increasingly being pressed to achieve cost containment. The causes of the problem are...
S D Horn
S D Horn
Hospitals want to identify physicians whose practice patterns are more costly or less costly than their colleagues', because of cost containment pressures from government, employers, and insurers. But whether a given physician is high cost ...
M F Collins
M F Collins
Young physicians represent a sizeable constituency of the medical professions, but they are facing increased socioeconomic pressures. The large number of women physicians continues to increase, thus changing the demographics of the young ph...
P S Alberts,M S Alberts,S L Alberts
P S Alberts
Seeking to fill an unmet need in the women's health care field, this specialized physician-directed center used the resources available in a private-practice obstetrics/gynecologic office to address premenstrual syndrome. The article outlin...
AIDS and patient confidentiality. More dilemmas for physicians--and lawyers [0.03%]
艾滋病与病人保密制度：医师和律师面临更多伦理困境
B A Goldberg
B A Goldberg
If patients who have AIDS or ARC, or who are seropositive for HIV antibody, refuse to engage in "safe sex" to protect their sexual partners, may physicians warn those partners? Must they warn them? Does the law apply equally to symptomatic ...
D W Johnston
D W Johnston
Tort reform, regrettably, offers only limited hope for reducing the professional liability of physicians and hospitals. Formalized risk management programs soon may be demanded by state agencies, accrediting organizations, and liability car...
A Fawley
A Fawley
The American Society of Internal Medicine's Medical Advocacy Services, Inc, (MASI) provides contract analysis and negotiation assistance by letter, telephone, or in person. Within MASI's purview are employment relationships, advice on merge...
E A Snelson
E A Snelson
The California Medical Association's Division of Physician Contracting and Medical Staff Affairs serves as a clearinghouse of data on the numerous and varied entities offering contracts to physicians in California and in other states. In ad...
E S Ogrod nd,R B Doherty
E S Ogrod nd
Physicians' cognitive services, historically underpaid in comparison to specific procedures, are finally beginning to earn deservedly higher fees. To a great extent, this increased reimbursement is the result of action by the American Socie...
S R Wynn
S R Wynn
Women now constitute 14% of all physicians in practice and are concentrated in the primary care specialties. Thirty-five percent of all medical students are female, and their numbers are increasing yearly. Female physicians frequently combi...