"I was embarrassed for us," said Jim Levett, a cardiac surgeon and the head of a large physician group.
South Los Angeles is rated 9 on a scale of 10 of undesirable places for doctors to work, said Phil Miller, a spokesman for Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a large physician recruiting firm.
Dorothy Monroe Edmonds, Wash., July 26 , 2009The writer is a former director of patient financial services at two hospitals and a large physician group.
There are some hints, though, said Dr. Ronald Davis, who is the president of the American Medical Association and a specialist in preventive medicine at the Henry Ford Health System, which includes hospitals, clinics, a managed-care plan and a large physician group practice.
These studies utilized data from a large, physician-owned professional liability insurer that provided coverage to physicians in every state.
Howard [ 81] described a physician organization's difficulties with building a large physician network to sustain a multi-state healthcare system.
Ten physicians from a large physician organization in California with baseline patient survey scores below the statewide 25th percentile participated in the agenda-setting intervention.
In 2007, as part of a larger physicians' performance project, the MSF system was launched in three hospitals for physician performance assessment and a pilot study established its feasibility [ 14].
Low acceptance rates indicate that even with reimbursement for participating in training, this strategy may need to be altered to make it more appealing to a larger physician audience.
Study participants were physicians from a large multispecialty physician organization in California, United States.
