...Diana J. Burgess; Rachel R. Hardeman; Sara E. Burke; Brooke A. Cunningham; John F. Dovidio; David B. Nelson; Sylvia P. Perry; Sean M. Phelan; Mark W. Yeazel; Jeph Herrin; Michelle van Ryn Abstract This article characterizes the political ideology of first-year medical students and describes...

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... of society. Meredith Minkler, University of California, Berkeley Susan Bartlett Foote. Managing the Medial Arms Race: Innova- tion and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry. Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1992. 299 pp. $35.00 cloth. The great American...

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...Katharina Janus; Volker E. Amelung; Laurence C. Baker; Michael Gaitanides; Friedrich W. Schwartz; Thomas G. Rundall Our study assesses how work-related monetary and nonmonetary factors affect physicians' job satisfaction at three academic medical centers in Germany and the United States, two...

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... for primary care doctors, we suggest that such programs face significant technical obstacles in all cases and particularly severe institutional obstacles in the United States. Duke University Press 2009 Paying for Performance in Primary Medical Care: Learning about...

...Lawrence D. Brown Abstract Academic medical centers (AMCs) are a familiar target of critics who charge the US health care system with indifference to the most pressing needs of the public. AMCs are frequently faulted, for example, for promoting specialization instead of primary care, for favoring...

...Chris Stern Hyman; Carol B. Liebman; Clyde B. Schechter; William M. Sage Mediation of medical malpractice lawsuits provides savings for the parties by shortening the litigation process. In theory, information that aids emotional healing and improves patient care can also surface through mediation...

...David Mechanic Trust, the expectation that institutions and professionals will act in one’s interests, contributes to the effectiveness of medical care. With the rapid privatization of medical care and the growth of managed care, trust may be diminished. Five important aspects of trust are examined...

...John D. Wilkerson; David Carrell We examine contributions by the American Medical Association's political action committee (AMPAC) to candidates for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives during two electoral cycles (1989–1990 and 1991–1992). In contrast to earlier studies, we do not find any...

...Karen Gutermuth Previous research has heightened the debate over what motivates the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the campaign financing arm of the American Medical Association (AMA). Analyses of roll call votes typically assume that vote-buying is the reason AMPAC...

... and Australia. Research Monograph no. 3. Canberra: Health Economics Research Unit, Australian National University. Canadian Medical Association. 1993 . Toward a New Consensus on Health Care Financing in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association. Commonwealth of Australia. 1991 . Health Insurance...

...Charles M. Kilo Michael L. Millenson. Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 433 pp. $24.95 cloth. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Fronstin , P. 1998 . Features...

...Peter Davis; Roy Lay-Yee; Julie Fitzjohn; Phil Hider; Robin Briant; Stephan Schug The issues of patient safety and quality of care have gained policy attention with a growing appreciation of the scale and impact of medical injury in health systems. While the focus is clearly on the prevention...

...Daniel M. Fox David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt, eds. Medical Care Output and Productivity. NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, volume 62. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2001. 611 pp. $80.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

... support for the market and suggests that the consensus favoring managed competition is deceptively fragile, with support riven by cleavages in the values used to judge fairness in the allocation of medical care. A unique data set of matched questions asked of both policy elites and the general public...

...Kathy Charmaz Susan Greenhalgh. Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 371 pp.$48.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Frank, Arthur W. 2000 . Illness and the Interactionist Vocation...

...Nancy Press Kaja Finkler. Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,2000. 296 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...