Doctors and Their Discontents

Health Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 112-114

  Colby, David C ^a  

^a Physician Payment Review Commission   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INCOME; JOB SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INCOME; JOB SATISFACTION; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031263561     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.6.112     Document Type: Short Survey

References (24)

1. Physician Payment Review Commission, Annual Report to Congress, 1996 (Washington: PPRC, 1996), 6.
2. PPRC, Annual Report to Congress, 1997 (Washington: PPRC, 1007), 16.
3. Ibid, 427.
4. Ibid., 33.
5. E. Freidson, Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
6. See L.D. Brown, Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1983); and P. Bauman, "The Formulation and Evolution of the Health Maintenance Organization Policy, 1970-1973," Social Science and Medicine (March-April 1976): 129-142.
7. See L.D. Brown, Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1983); and P. Bauman, "The Formulation and Evolution of the Health Maintenance Organization Policy, 1970-1973," Social Science and Medicine (March-April 1976): 129-142.
8. R.M. Nixon, quoted in Bauman, "The Formulation and Evolution of the Health Maintenance Organization Policy, 1970-1973," 129.
9. Ibid., 136.
10. P. Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982), 27.
11. For more complete descriptions of organized medicine's attacks on prepaid health arrangements, see ibid.; and J.G. Burrow, Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).
12. For more complete descriptions of organized medicine's attacks on prepaid health arrangements, see ibid.; and J.G. Burrow, Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).
13. J. Hadley and J.M. Mitchell, "Effects of HMO Market Penetration on Physicians' Work Effort and Satisfaction," Health Affairs (November/December 1997): 99-111.
14. C.J. Simon et al., "The Provision of Primary Care: Does Managed Care Make a Difference?" Health Affairs (November/December 1997): 89-98.
15. National Opinion Research Center, Survey of Physicians about the Medicare Program and Fee Schedule (Washington: PPRC, 1994).
16. Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs and the Gallup Organization, Results of the Physician Payment Review Commission's 1994 National Survey of Physicians (Washington: PPRC, 1995).
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. American Hospital Association, "Statement of AHA before the PPRC," 11 December 1996.
20. G.C. Pope and J.E. Schneider, "Trends in Physician Income," Health Affairs (Spring 1992): 181-193.
21. W.B. Weeks et al., "A Comparison of the Educational Costs and Incomes of Physicians and Other Professionals," The New England Journal of Medicine (5 May 1994): 1280-1286; and PPRC, Annual Report to Congress, 1997, 348.
22. W.B. Weeks et al., "A Comparison of the Educational Costs and Incomes of Physicians and Other Professionals," The New England Journal of Medicine (5 May 1994): 1280-1286; and PPRC, Annual Report to Congress, 1997, 348.
23. P.L. Stamps and N.T. Boley Cruz, Issues in Physician Satisfaction: New Perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Health Administration Press, 1994).
24. PPRC, Annual Report to Congress, 1997, 354.