Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profit work there is "not a lot of income security, but there is a lot of job security," said Jim Yong Kim, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, instructor and lecturer at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an international organization dedicated to improving health in poor communities...
...profit work there is "not a lot of income security, but there is a lot of job security," said Jim Yong Kim, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, instructor and lecturer at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an international organization dedicated to improving health in poor communities...
...Dennis A. Ausiello '67, professor of clinical medicine at the Medical School (HMS) and physician-in-chief of medical services and chief of the renal unit at Mass. General Hospital...
Shah is one of five residents participating in an innovative program that allows him to act as a primary-care physician in an HMO. All five doctors share a PCP number and take responsibility for 10 patients each week. "When I went to medical school, I don't recall learning anything about managed care," says Shah. "But working here has helped me to think about prevention more. Now I ask my patients about health-maintenance things like diet, nutrition and exercise...
...union, negotiate how much money they will charge to provide care. An IPA also gives doctors more control over how they do their jobs, something managed care has been taking away. "The doctors want to be listened to," says Dr. Dennis Clements, a Duke pediatrician and PrimaHealth member physician. "Why did we go to all that school if someone with an M.B.A. is going to make all the decisions...