after physicians leave, their former patients persistently reduce their primary care utilization, only partially … substituting it with specialist visits and hospital care. Because patients find a new GP already 1.1 quarters after the old resigns …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

program, where hospitals pay doctors bonuses for reducing the total hospital costs of admitted Medicare patients (a â …

estimates of hospital ownership type consist of the impact of differential patient case mix (selection) and hospital cost …

This analysis has two purposes. The first is to establish that physicians owe their patients a fiduciary duty. Courts … attention, both within and outside the medical profession: the concern that some physicians are failing to disclose medical … help in times of sickness and injury. This Article asserts that physicians’ fiduciary duty to patients encompasses a duty …

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

Canadian healthcare is facing a paradox: recently graduated specialist physicians struggle to find work, even as …