Striking Against Managed Care
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Strikes by French doctors during 1995-1996 may not prevent significant health care reforms from taking place in France. Most French doctors still get paid via fee-for-service and maintain a high degree of autonomy. However, in response to rising health care costs, the government has proposed limiting the number of medical students, controlling physician fees, prohibiting certain practices, and placing primary care physicians in the role of gatekeeper. When these reforms were announced in 1995, physicians staged five strikes and national demonstrations.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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On White Coats and Professional Development: The Formal and the Hidden Curricula
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The white coat is symbolic of the authority, exclusivity, privilege, and influence of physicians. Conferring on medical graduates the symbol of both their profession and of purity, the coat has been adopted as a symbol of medicine by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Despite the positive association of medicine and the white coat, the white coat ceremony reinforces the exclusive and exclusionary nature of the medical profession, and ought to be replaced by a more inclusive ritual.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 1998
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Can joint negotiation restore physicians' professional autonomy?
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A proposal by the American College of Physicians to allow doctors to negotiate with health care plans may have unintended consequences. The proposal aims to restore doctors' autonomy, but rejects the traditional methods of negotiation.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2001
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