Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
Primary care physicians have two roles: the healer and the gatekeeper. We show that, due to information asymmetries, they cannot be expected to fulfill the latter role. Better gatekeepers will be poorer healers; hence all patients, both truly sick and shirkers, will strictly prefer physicians...
