"How Employed Physicians' Contracts May Threaten Their Patients and Professionalism" Authored by Health Care Renewal Bloggers Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

"How Employed Physicians' Contracts May Threaten Their Patients and Professionalism" Authored by Health Care Renewal Bloggers Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

By Unknown at 10:54 AM

We have noted that increasing numbers of physicians provide patient care as employees of large organizations, often hospital systems, somet...

Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital Systems

Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital Systems

By Unknown at 7:22 PM

We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician .  In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed ...

The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System

The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System

By Unknown at 2:14 PM

Physicians are sworn to provide the best possible care to each individual patient.  Yet in the US, physicians increasingly practice as emplo...

You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave - Duke and UNC Allegedly Agreed Not to Hire Each Other's Faculty

You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave - Duke and UNC Allegedly Agreed Not to Hire Each Other's Faculty

By Unknown at 12:11 PM

We have intermittently discussed the worsening plight of physicians trying to provide clinical care as employees of large organizations.  Su...

More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

By Unknown at 7:24 AM

There are still some idealistic physicians who enter primary care practice as a calling. The usual informal definition of primary care is ca...