developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I … from a standard deviation increase in the physician’s 3-year caseload equivalent to around 6% of a standard deviation in …

A host of different factors affect health and longevity, ranging from genetic endowments to public policy. Physicians … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … aspect of physicians’ health management styles have important implications for patient outcomes and health care costs …

or with less discrimination. -- Private health insurance ; waiting time ; German acute care hospitals …This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting … times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …