These inconsistencies may even affect such crude measures as head counts of physicians and their translation into full-time equivalents, according to their productivity.
After a negotiation among the chief of physicians and the head of the different medical sections, ORs are assigned to each section.
Those who had entered both "head of department" and "physician" were allocated to the physician group.
"I was embarrassed for us," said Jim Levett, a cardiac surgeon and the head of a large physician group.
HSH, Head of Division of Total Parenteral Nutrition, Attending physician of Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Associate professor of Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming UniversiTaipeiipei, Taiwan.
The results on primary occupation adds up to more than 100% as 5 respondents noted two titles (e.g. both head of department and physician).
At the first meeting the head of the clinic (physician) was present to sanction the project and participate in the discussions.
For example, many individuals holding managerial and administrative academic positions in medical universities, such as chancellor, vice-chancellor, dean, or head of department, are physicians or medical specialists without any preparation or training for academic leadership [ 1].
"We're trying to create a field here–it's not a single discipline where heads of hospitals, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, engineers and business specialists are all talking together about how to do health care better".
In 2006, a questionnaire (see Additional file 1) was sent to the head physicians of departments of surgery and anesthesia in hospitals with more than 450 beds in Germany.
