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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...
This is Shah's classroom, and patients like Shoe are his textbooks. Now in his last year of residency in internal medicine, he spends two afternoons each week at the clinic, seeing patients under the supervision of an attending physician who must approve every medical decision he makes. Only the short length of his white coat betrays his status as a doctor-in-training--an M.D. after four years of medical school, he examines patients, writes prescriptions, orders tests and fills out insurance forms...
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...