Team physicians for professional sports franchises face a conflict of interest created by the competing loyalties they … owe to the team that employs them and to the athlete patient they must treat. Marketing agreements under which physicians … marketing arrangements call into question the independent judgment of team physicians and cause players to question the quality …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …

there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …

. In these ways, AI may wither complement or substitute for physicians. We argue that AI represents the culmination of …

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

: the number of physicians in the physician's group (if any); the physician's integration with or employment by a hospital … or hospital system; and the average age of the other physicians in the physician's group. We present three key findings …. First, all else held constant, group physicians prescribe far fewer opioids, and prescribe them more appropriately, than do …

model in which physicians' treatment choices depend on patients' characteristics and on the recent choices of nearby peer … - either because there are local knowledge spillovers or because physicians want to conform to local practice patterns. In our …