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Eli Ginzberg, PhD

JAMA. 1985;253(19):2878-2879.

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During the past months, I have participated in several conferences centered around the changing structure of the US health care system and what these changes hold in store for physicians. I listened with a third ear to the questions raised by physicians in the audience, both the older, established members and the younger people who were just getting established. Occasionally residents and medical students also participated. One and all, these physicians gave evidence of concern, unease, confusion, discontent, and anxiety about what was happening and, more particularly, what would happen to their profession and to themselves and their colleagues.

As a long-term student of physician personnel and the economics of the health care system, here are my best "hunches." Any attempt to attach a more respectable term to the uncertain future would be presumptuous. But in the absence of anything better, even hunches may be of some use, especially since . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Columbia University New York

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