Good Health and "How Employed Physicians' Contracts May Threaten Their Patients and Professionalism" Authored by Health Care Renewal Bloggers Published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Elvonda

We have noted that increasing numbers of physicians provide patient care as employees of large organizations, often hospital systems, somet...

Good Health and Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital Systems. Elvonda

We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician .  In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed ...

Good Health and The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System. Elvonda

Physicians are sworn to provide the best possible care to each individual patient.  Yet in the US, physicians increasingly practice as emplo...

Good Health and You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave - Duke and UNC Allegedly Agreed Not to Hire Each Other's Faculty. Elvonda

We have intermittently discussed the worsening plight of physicians trying to provide clinical care as employees of large organizations.  Su...

Good Health and More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play. Elvonda

There are still some idealistic physicians who enter primary care practice as a calling. The usual informal definition of primary care is ca...

Good Health and Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?. Elvonda

A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also rev...