Is there a doctor in the house?
Subtitle: market signals and tomorrow's supply of doctors
By: Richard M. Scheffler.
Publisher: Stanford General Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804700320
Subjects: Physicians -- Supply and demand -- United States; Physicians -- Supply and demand -- Forecasting; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States; Managed care plans (Medical care) -- United States -- Finance; Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Medical education -- United States -- Finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Market power and the doctor supply. The supply cycle of doctors; title: Managed care redistributes market power; title: Physician incomes : following the money; title: Who are the doctors, and where are they?; title: Reshaping the workforce : nurse practitioners and physician assistants; title: Doctor supply forecasts : more or less the "right" number of doctors in a better health care system; title: Conversations with the experts.