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August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In this study researchers used a simulation exercise, Choosing Healthplans All Together (CHAT), to investigate how people felt about contributing to health care benefits for the uninsured. The sample was comprised of 31 groups of 322 individuals in ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
About one fourth of practicing physicians in the United States graduated from medical schools in other countries. While much attention has been given to their role in the physician workforce, less attention has been given to the impact international ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The claim by Paul Starr in his book The Social Transformation of American Medicine that the medical profession has been "corporatized" is questioned in the current article.
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In the current article, Pescosolido and Martin build on the history of medicine presented in Starr's 1982 book, The Social Transformation of Medicine. Specifically, they investigated how scientific medicine achieved professional dominance and sovere ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The current article is a review of Paul Starr's analysis in the Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982) and its impact on health care activism and the medical profession. Halpern asserts that Starr does not adequately investigate the proce ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Resident physician teachers play a crucial role in medical education, yet few controlled studies have examined residents-as-teachers curricula or the effects of specific training interventions on teaching skills. From 2001-2002, a pilot trial conduc ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The vast majority of Medicare patients receive drug benefits with dollar limits or caps. Beneficiaries who exceed their caps have to pay the entire cost of their prescriptions for the remainder of the year. This study examined cost-cutting strategie ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Out-of-pocket-costs incurred by patients for medical services have grown from $25.1 billion in 1970 to more than $205 billion in 2001. This study examines barriers preventing patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket expenses. Survey parti ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Modest evidence from controlled clinical studies supports the use of antipsychotic medications to treat severe disruptive behaviors, such as autism and Tourette syndrome, in children and adolescents. However, the use of these drugs to treat milder b ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The author reviewed Paul Starr's 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine (TSTAM). Starr's focus in TSTAM was the corporatization of medical care which he posited would involve: change from nonprofit and public hospitals to private a ...