Tag: CEO
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Will those doctors who support healthcare reform agree to salary cuts? Should they?
An interesting recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asks that doctors be explicit about what they will support and what they won’t. In particular, would we agree to pay cuts? The essay points out that, at least early in the process, drug companies, insurance companies, device manufacturers, and hospitals all agreed to…
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Keeping a large city hospital solvent: is it an impossible balancing act?
Ground zero for many of the medical care debates today is the large, urban hospital — places such as Beth Israel Deaconess hospital in Boston. Even though it is one of the flagship hospitals of Harvard, it struggles along with all urban hospitals to balance its books every year and still carry out its mission.…