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increasingly demand specific drugs, treatment, or other medical services from their physicians. If the physician fails to provide … their treatment plans. As a result of these treatment demands, physicians are under growing pressure to provide the …'s financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist …
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physicians' service quality and interpersonal skills, ratings are positively associated with important conventional measures of … clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … on patient flow, measured by physicians' patient revenue and patient volume. By instrumenting for physicians' ratings …
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This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …
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There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …
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The heart of the model is this: to quote Pogo, "We have met the enemy and it is us." We doctors are the problem, not because we are venal or self-serving or insulated from reality. Far from it. Most of us are hard-working, dedicated professionals. We are the problem, though, because of the way...
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physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
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physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …
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question, "How should physicians be compensated?" We demonstrate theoretically that the preferred physician compensation scheme … which the efforts of physicians and patients are highly complementary, or in which both types of effort are important to the …
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