The Physician Executive: Role in the Adaptation of American Medicine

In the arena of managed care and large delivery systems, professional associations find it increasingly difficult to influence the environments in which their members practice. Physician executives appear likely to play key roles in the response of medicine to change. This article discusses how an a...

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Published in:Health care management review 1997, Vol.22 (2), p.90-96
Main Authors: Schneller, Eugene S., Greenwald, Howard P., Richardson, Mary L., Ott, JoAnn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chief executive officers
Employment
Health care delivery
Health care industry
Health Care Reform
Health maintenance organizations
HMOs
Humans
Institutionalization
Job Description
Management
Managerial skills
Managers
Medicine
Organizational Innovation
Physician Executives - classification
Physician Executives - organization & administration
Physician Executives - psychology
Physician's Role
Physicians
Quality control
Responsibilities
Roles
Studies
Terminology as Topic
United States
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Summary:In the arena of managed care and large delivery systems, professional associations find it increasingly difficult to influence the environments in which their members practice. Physician executives appear likely to play key roles in the response of medicine to change. This article discusses how an analysis of the work of physicians involved in management fails to yield a clear analytic distinction between physicians engaged in management and the behavior of others who have managerial responsibility.
ISSN:0361-6274
1550-5030
DOI:10.1097/00004010-199704000-00010