...Martha Katz; David C. Warner; Dale Whittington This study identifies trends that will lead to a dramatic increase in the number of active physicians in the United States during the next decade. The supply of active medical doctors (MDs) and doctors of osteopathy (DOs) as well as active post...

...Eitan D. Hersh Following the articles, Paul Beninger provides an insightful commentary from his vantage point as a medical school faculty member and clinician. Beninger places the five articles in the context of the physicians who are focused mainly on their work with patients at a time when...

...Lynne R. Davidson This paper asserts that the selection of medical specialty by women physicians-in-training is a “choice by constraint.” Comparative data on men and women interns and residents are provided in order to document parameters of constraint in three separate areas: 1) subjective reasons...

...Dorothy Robyn; Jack Hadley This article considers a number of issues which might arise in formulating policy for new health occupations. Its particular focus is on nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants and their treatment under potential national health insurance arrangements...

...Wayne R. Wendling; Jack L. Werner; Norbert W. Budde The purpose of this study is to examine the relative effectiveness of three health manpower programs–loan forgiveness, preceptorship and community recruitment–at inducing physicians into shortage counties in four census regions. Descriptive...

...Judy Jolley Mohraz Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel, eds., In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983), 284 pp., $29.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke...

...Aaron Mitchell; Ameet Sarpatwari; Peter B. Bach Abstract Payments from the pharmaceutical industry to US physicians are common. In determining which payments rise to the level of an illegal kickback under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Department of Health and Human Services' Office...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Marc A. Rodwin Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest. . New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 411 pp. $25.00 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Frankford , David M. 1989 . Creating and Dividing...

...Elianne Riska Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Drachman, Virginia G. 1984 . Hospital with a Heart...

...Mark Olfson Abstract Primary care physicians have assumed an increasingly important role in US outpatient mental health care. They are providing an increasing volume of outpatient mental health services, prescribing a growing number and variety of psychotropic medications, and treating patients...

...Jonathan Oberlander This review was commissioned by former JHPPL book review editor Rick Mayes and edited by Eric Patashnik. Miriam J. Laugesen . Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 288 pp. $35 , hardback...

... or the contention that physicians generate demand to avoid the impact on their incomes of government price controls. In this critique, we argue that the evidence on supplier-induced demand and physician responses to price controls does not support the conclusions drawn by Feldman and Sloan. We conclude...

...Peter A. Glassman; John E. Rolph; Laura P. Petersen; Melissa A. Bradley; Richard L. Kravitz Whether personal malpractice experience is part of a tort signal prompting physicians to practice defensively is unclear. To explore this issue further, we assessed how physicians’ malpractice experiences...

...Thomas Rice; Lyle Nelson; David C. Colby We assess the potential of increased economic competition by examining whether Medicare beneficiaries are willing to switch to physicians who agree to accept all services on assignment. Data come from a survey of Medicare beneficiaries conducted in November...

...Ann G. Lawthers; A. Russell Localio; Nan M. Laird; Stuart Lipsitz; Liesi Hebert; Troyen A. Brennan We explore the deterrent effect of the tort system by assessing physician perceptions of the risk of being sued and the impact of those perceptions on their own practice. The data are from a mailed...

...Gail Silverstein Physician participation in fee-for-service Medicaid programs has been declining nationally since the mid-1970s. Numerous studies have documented the reasons for this decline, including poor reimbursement, payment delays, and administrative burdens. Most are now incorporating...

...Stephen Page This article develops a framework that distinguishes four types of competitive strategies that physicians' organizations can adopt in their interactions with health plans. Two types of strategies protect physicians'incomes and autonomy from incursion and control by insurers; the other...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Physicians' fees under Medicare are updated by regulation annually based on a formula called the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Since 2003 Congress has reversed impending cuts to fees in response to physician calls for reform of the SGR, yet physician groups supported the SGR...

... using information on state laws combined with survey responses of physicians. We distinguish regulations with a typology based on whether they affect the context or content of care and the target group of the regulation (consumer or provider). Our findings indicate that the context of care appears...

... ( 19 ): 1512 -1518. Miller , R. H. , and H. S. Luft. 1997 . Does Managed Care Lead to Better or Worse Quality of Care? Health Affairs 16 ( 5 ): 7 -25. Why Are Physicians So Upset about Managed Care...