Medicine has become an industry, and as a result, there is an increased regulation of medicine. The increased incidence of malpractice suits is, itself, the result of the regulation of medicine. The premise is to organize a network of providers who are willing to take a reduced income per patient in exchange for volume and access to patients. There is a fee schedule which gives the patients a choice, but costs are not controlled. They are more tightly-managed, with a primary care physician serving as a gatekeeper.
Income varies with specialty, age, gender, and location of practice.
Dr. Holly Andersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. They are underrepresented in medical and surgical specialties, and in both solo practice and group practice settings. There are 22,000 women in academic medicine. Status of minorities in medicine Dr. Edgar Mandeville is a gynecologist-obstetrician in a polycultural, polyethnic practice. Ethnic minorities are disproportionately high among his uninsured and underinsured patients.