We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

after physicians leave, their former patients persistently reduce their primary care utilization, only partially … ist und dass der Hausarzt eine wichtige Rolle in der Gesundheitsversorgung spielt. …

We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …