Primary care physicians have a central, coordination role in medicine, yet little is known about their impacts on … healthcare utilization. I study the short-run and long-run effects of switching to different primary care physicians on … utilization within healthcare markets. To estimate the short-run effects of changing primary care physicians on utilization, I …

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing …

The French market for specialist physician care has a dual legal structure: physicians must exclusively work in sector …

increasingly demand specific drugs, treatment, or other medical services from their physicians. If the physician fails to provide … their treatment plans. As a result of these treatment demands, physicians are under growing pressure to provide the …'s financial survival. Physicians, however, have a fiduciary obligation to their patients, which includes the duty to resist …