The phrase "affiliated doctors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to doctors who are connected or associated with a particular organization, hospital, or medical group.
Example: "The clinic has a network of affiliated doctors who specialize in various fields of medicine."
Alternatives: "associated physicians" or "partnered doctors".
Efforts by hospital groups to assist affiliated doctors include projects at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston and Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
The House Government Reform Committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday on a bill that would require such Web sites to identify their place of business, as well as affiliated doctors and pharmacists, and would ban any sales made without an in-person consultation with a doctor and a valid prescription.
Most N.H.L. teams have about 10 affiliated doctors — specialists and dentists with practices of their own.
By 1996, St. Barnabas ran seven hospitals in northern and central New Jersey, with 4,000 affiliated doctors, more than 20,000 employees and a million patients.
"It's all about how to deliver care, coordinated and efficient care," said Robert C. Sehring, an executive at OSF. OSF has already developed an arrangement in which affiliated doctors can prescribe birth control pills through a separate practice.
UnitedHealthcare has sent letters over the last few weeks to tens of thousands of patients, warning that they could be cut off from coverage at Continuum hospitals and affiliated doctors, and advising them to start shopping for new ones.
US Oncology, a network of affiliated cancer doctors, teamed up with Aetna in May to develop a program to persuade doctors to follow treatment guidelines.
There are now 120 affiliated Westchester doctors compared with perhaps 10 a decade ago.
An internist for four decades in private practice in Manhattan, he was affiliated with Doctors, Lenox Hill and Mt. Sinai hospitals.
Continuum has also become affiliated with doctors practicing out of 13 Duane Reade drugstores in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and has a contract to expand to 20 within the next year or so, and to 50 within four years, said Dr. James A. D'Orta, chairman and chief executive of Consumer Health Services, which manages the practices in the pharmacies.
"We are now facing a real crisis, so why do governments, pharmaceutical companies and global health bodies walk away when we need them most?" Gabriel Alcoba, a snakebite expert affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.
