These developments increase doctors' clinical autonomy.
Then the further reductions in doctor-time for 'routine' patients may be balanced out with the increased doctor-time needed for 'difficult' patients.
All it takes is staggered starts for increasing grades of doctor.
(Medical student 38, female) Survey data shows that the school students also found the workshops valuable for increasing their understanding and trust of doctors and their confidence that doctors could be a useful source of help on problems relating to sex, drugs and mental health.
The more nurses per GP for asthma and COPD the fewer admissions compared to those practices with no nurses while practices with no nurses had fewer admissions for diabetes compared to those with nurses although there was no clear trend for increasing admissions as the nurse to doctor ratio increased for those practices with nurses.
The $20m cost included an estimate of $4m for increased visits to doctors and psychologists.
Parents in many Chinese cities, including Beijing, have become increasingly alarmed by acrid pollution that doctors blame for increased respiratory illnesses.
Our organization of specialty-care physicians calls for increased reimbursement for primary care doctors as a way to increase their numbers and allow them to spend more time with individual patients, even if specialty-care reimbursement must be cut as a necessary spending offset.
One of the city's goals is for the data system to serve as both incentive and support for doctors increasing their focus on what the health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, calls the ABCS of preventive medicine: Aspirin (to prevent heart attacks), Blood pressure, Cholesterol and Smoking.
For doctors, increasing age was linked to valuing good working relationships higher, although the effect was just borderline significant (P = 0.058).
