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... are generalists and 88 percent are specialists. While it is undisputed that US physicians can choose to train in a striking array of medical specialties and subspecialties not seen elsewhere, the perception that the United States has a specialty-dominated workforce is not accurate. The US definition of generalist...

...Martin A. Strosberg Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Graduate Medical Education, Specialists, and Specialization-The Tangled Web Martin A. Strosberg, New York University The Flexnerian reform was profound because...

... and fewer to become specialists. In this article, I consider various issues raised by these trends. Do the various state programs constitute an effective policy laboratory? Is the market solving problems government could not? Are the government initiatives now irrelevant? I conclude that the market...

..., Alberta, and British Columbia. Early negotiations between physicians over changes in relative fees favored general practitioners because they were the dominant voting block within the associations. Despite fewer gains in the fee arena, specialists were willing to remain in the associations because all...

... with relatively large numbers of specialists). Both government purchasing and regulation affect development, but in ways that may be contradictory in motivation and outcome (e.g., state officials seek to contain costs through Medicaid and Medicare managed care and to enhance consumer protection and satisfaction...

..., and more equity producing than is the case for specialist-dominated health systems. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Acheson, D. 1998 . Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health: Report . London: Stationery Office. Almeida, C., P. Braveman, M. R. Gold, C. L. Szwarcwald, J. M...

... a nationally representative sample of self-employed physicians from 1992, this article presents estimates of the effects of hospital admitting privileges on physician earnings. The results indicate that for nonprimary care specialists with few admitting privileges, gaining an additional privilege increases...

...-graduate MDs and DOs in the U.S. is projected to increase by approximately 50 percent in the decade ending in 1985. The number of active physicians per 100,000 population is similarly expected to increase by approximately one-third. The production of surgical specialists, in particular, appears...

..., the authors did find that increases in costs and utilization were essentially driven by supply factors such as the number of hospital beds or medical specialists in a given community. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Competition Versus Regulation: Some Empirical...

... professions in both France and the United States are also subject to intraprofessional forces of division, such as the conflicts which often oppose generalists to specialists. Although organized medicine in France and the United States shares these commonalities, there is a very important difference between...

.... The set will be useful to scholars of comparative health policy as well as to specialists in European affairs. The articles also illustrate two methodological issues in conducting research on the governance of health policy. The first is that how researchers define governance influences what evidence...

...; the division in British medicine between general practitioners and specialists; and the characteristics that we identify of established successful IHCDSs, which created formidable barriers to entry for a new IHCDS. This explains why currently the most promising organizational developments in U.S. health care...

...Kathleen E. Foote; Emilio E. Varanini Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs), joint ventures of commercial insurers and various groups of medical providers such as physicians, specialists, and hospitals whose development in California has been quickened by the Affordable Care Act, carry...

... models of collaboration between primary care physicians and mental health specialists. Several elements of the Affordable Care Act provide options for financing and organizing the delivery of integrated general medical and behavioral services. Such integrated services have the potential to improve access...

...Harris S. Cohen Licensing of the health professions is an issue of public policy which has been under fire for years. Economists argue that licensing stifles competition and increases health care costs. Manpower specialists contend that statutory scopes of practice create arbitrary barriers to both...

...William J. Lynk The growth of antitrust litigation in the health care area reflects the developing consensus that competition is as powerful a force in health care as it is elsewhere in the economy. Exclusive contracts between hospitals and hospital-based physician specialists have been prominent...

... doctrine of informed consent. In addition, we find that the number of years since medical residency is positively related to physicians' claims incidence during the first 27 years of practice, and that OBGs and medical specialists who spend more time with their patients per office visit incur fewer claims...

... the payment vehicle is an all-inclusive patient per diem, the per diem amount is adjusted annually to en- sure that the hospital receives its entire budget. Mostly independent hospital specialists. Hospital specialists in The Neth- erlands typically work for themselves as independent...

... stronger terms. As a political scientist, I am aware of the dangers of case studies, of idiosyncratic analyses and of participation-observation, especially when one is observing activities pertaining to one’s own health and well-being. However, after eight specialists, five x-rays and an arthrogram...