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... neurosurgeons between 1963 and 1973, the continu- ing large increase in the number of residency positions (between 1973 and 1975 alone, there was a fifteen percent increase in first year residency positions), and the fact that some were vacant all suggest that entry into training programs...

... oligopoly without entry control) and deduces conclusions about the behavior of neurosurgeons and their customers (patients) from this characterization. He begins with the basic premise that applying market structure concepts to the medical sector is a valid procedure. The purpose of our...

... of the surgery itself. Chiari malformation, a rare congenital skull malformation, could generate similar complaints. Dr. A suspected it was not as rare as believed, because the evidence was too subtle for most neurosurgeons to detect through magnetic resonance imaging and other diagnostic procedures. He came...

...- standing, and perhaps from the general public understanding, about how the coun- seling of the parents was handled. In the first place, I was not the person to offer the prognosis to the family. The prognosis for this child was offered to the family by a private neurosurgeon who had transferred...

... be determined using brain-death criteria. Once a neurosurgeon (or, less often, a neurologist) has declared brain death, the family must be notified. Most OPAs prefer the physician or the nurse to have prepared the family for the possibility of donation earlier, during the time they were advising...

... sep- arate surveys for general surgeons and neurosurgeons. The ACOG sam- ple excluded gynecologic oncologists and reproductive endocrinologists. Sample sizes were limited by the resources available to the study and in some cases by the specialty society’s rules and limits on surveys...

... a surgical, procedure which helped to blur the distinction between the practice of physical and psychiatric medicine. In Ontario the first lobotomy operations were performed in 1944 on 19 women patients from provincial mental hospitals by Dr. K. G. McKenzie, a neurosurgeon at the Toronto...

... sought to game the system to their financial advantage. Individual stories illustrate the consequences of this system for real families. For example, Olga Baker's daughter visited the emergency room and was seen by a “consulting neurosurgeon” who recommended immediate surgery. Although she was diagnosed...

... of Public Health 78 ( 6 ): 642–45. Prottas , J. M. , and H. L. Batten. 1989 . Neurosurgeons and the Supply of Human Organs. Health Affairs 8 ( 1 ): 119 -31. Task Force on Organ Transplantation. 1986 . Organ Transplantation . Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

... projected U.S. medical manpower issues directly on to the political plane. Thus Senator Edward Kennedy asked in 1974: “Why do we have the same number of neurosurgeons in Massachusetts with a population of five million as they have in England with a population of 40 million? Why do we have twice...

... Place is chief executive officer. Gary Dennis, Howard University neurosurgeon, is president of the National Med- ical Association. Jordan Richland, formerly president of the Partnership for Prevention, is executive director of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Larry Green, formerly senior...

... or gynecologists and neurosurgeons), annual malpractice premiums in January 1989 were: Indi- anapolis-$8,398, Cincinnati-$19,474, Cleveland-$21,922, Kalama- zoo43,929, and Detroit-$71,577 (Mullen 1989). Not surprisingly, Medical Protective's defense costs were lower in Indiana than in either Ohio...

... care services constitute a spectrum of tasks ranging from highly complex to very simple; the highly complex are less frequent in their occurrence; the simple most frequent. Thus at the apex of a pyramid we find the most highly trained categories of specialists (neurosurgeons, for example...

... imagined. These advances occurred, however, only because there is a cadre of physicians and researchers who devote their professional lives to studying and treating the brain. More- over, consumers with brain tumors demand neurosurgeons (no one wants 794 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

... has declined to pursue the direct regulation of internships and residencies as a means of controlling specialty distribution and, instead, has chosen to rely on incentives and moral persuasion. It is of note, for example, that 80 percent of the nation’s new neurosurgeons are trained in New...

... advised the parents against surgery. By contrast, Newsday inter- viewed a neurosurgeon who had seen the child and favored surgery, although he believed the parents were entitled to make the choice. But even in Newsday’s generally excellent coverage ,9 it never clearly emerged...

... area, we were contracted with every hospital and physician group - other than super specialist physicians like neurosurgeons or plastic surgeons. Forthcoming in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. DOI: 10.1215/03616878-11853756. MANUUNSECDRIITPETD 9 A few respondents described how, at least...

... of the interview, she named a friend, a neurosurgeon, his execu- tive nurse, and his junior assistant. She was particularly grateful to the junior physician who put scans on a screen and showed her in black and white that fluid was no longer building up and pressing on her husband’s brain. This concrete...