{"title":"Why I chose an HMO.","authors":"M Burger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The advantages of family practice in an HMO are fixed hours, excellent call coverage, and immediate, steady outcome. Its disadvantages are less control over administrative decisions, less continuity of coverage than in solo practice, and great sensitivity to economic pressures. The author discusses how he came to his decision to practice family medicine in an HMO.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"35 3","pages":"96-8, 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21160127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical economics and the physician-in-training.","authors":"A H Rosenstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The medical environment has undergone many radical changes in the past decade. The advent of \"discount medicine\" plans, such as PPOs and HMOs, has given new physicians both more choices and more restrictions to consider when planning their practices. The interdependence of physicians and hospitals is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"35 3","pages":"59-62, 67, 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21160126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The patient's safety in anesthesia.","authors":"E C Pierce","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the 1970s and early 1980s, it was estimated that mortality from anesthetics in the western world ranged from 1 to 4 per 10,000, with a significant percentage of these preventable. It is likely with the techniques available for risk management in anesthesia today, the mortality rate will decline significantly.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"35 2","pages":"51-2, 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21163303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RBRVS (resource-based relative value scale) stirs debate in medical community.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"34 13","pages":"129, 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21175266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug-use control: philosophical basis for hospital pharmacy services.","authors":"J A Oddis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"34 12","pages":"162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21160999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Registered care technicians and the nursing shortage.","authors":"A J Bollet","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"34 12","pages":"21-2, 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21161000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dissatisfied medical patient: predictors of intent to change doctors.","authors":"R O Hansson, J H Remondet, D Obrochta, L Bell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A favorable patient-doctor relationship is critical for the maintenance of a stable and productive practice. Most adults are likely to have had experiences in physician's offices that have caused upset or dissatisfaction. Many of these experiences will have resulted in changing doctors. The likelihood of changing doctors is more often related to the physician's behavior than to his or her actual competence or efficacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":79717,"journal":{"name":"Resident and staff physician","volume":"34 10","pages":"85-8, 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21173002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}