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Physicians vs Physicians
Farrin A. Manian, MD, MPH
Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:801-802.
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PERHAPS I was too naive. Many years ago, I decided to become a physician
because I considered it—and still do—a calling. My childhood role
models, the physicians who helped me recover from numerous bouts of pharyngitis,
seemed to be genuinely interested in me and my health. I could not wait to
join a group of professionals whose primary mission was healing and comforting
the sick. By and large, physicians appeared to be a relatively homogeneous
group of dedicated people, with noble goals. But in the past several years,
relative homogeneity seems to be giving way to heterogeneity in professional
ideals. Indeed, at times it seems the only commonality among some physicians
is their professional degree. Perhaps heterogeneity in professional ideals
has been there all along, and the current business of medicine is just unmasking
it.
To be sure, differences among physicians in their approaches to . . . [Full Text of this Article] PATTERN 1: ATTENDING OR CONSULTING PHYSICIAN VS THE HMO MEDICAL DIRECTOR
PATTERN 2: ATTENDING OR CONSULTING PHYSICIAN VS A SIMILAR PHYSICIAN
PATTERN 3: HOSPITALIST VS THE CONSULTING PHYSICIAN
PATTERN 4: ATTENDING OR CONSULTING PHYSICIAN VS THE LABORATORY MEDICAL
DIRECTOR
FINAL NOTE
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