Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources other than their physicians. This …, consumerism may harm other consumerists, non-consumerists, or both. Data from a large national survey of physicians confirm the … physicians …

: 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 …

One way that physicians learn about new treatments and technologies is through interactions with other physicians. Such … interactions are shaped, in part, by the structure of group medical practices: physicians who work in the same practice have more … opportunities to exchange ideas. To quantify the importance of physician practices in technology adoption, I analyze physicians …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

We study physicians' incentives to use personalized medicine techniques, replicating the physician's trade-offs under … the option of personalized medicine information. In a laboratory experiment where prospective physicians play a dual …

effectiveness of these incentives, however, depends both on physicians' price sensitivity and their knowledge of patient prices. We … information. Applying this model to diabetes care, we find that physicians lack detailed price information and are more price …-elastic than full-information models imply. We predict that providing physicians detailed information on prices at the point of …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …

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 …