quality of care. Using data from California nonprofit hospitals from 2004 to 2008, we document that the absence of physicians …

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 …

What makes some physicians perform better than others? This paper examines two different channels through which primary … population of statin-users in Denmark that matches patients to primary care physicians, we show that the impact of a physician …

. Those treated by physicians from the higher-ranked institution have 10-25% shorter and less expensive stays than patients … are precise. Procedure differences across the teams are consistent with the ability of physicians in the lower …-ranked institution to substitute time and diagnostic tests for the faster judgments of physicians from the top-ranked institution …