Book Review: Creating the Hospital Group Practice
Authors: Eric Lister, MD and Todd Sagin, MD Publisher: – Health Administration Press – 232 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnanai The authors of this book point out in the Preface itself that the health care system in the United States needs to improve dramatically in three basic ways. At the very core of this system are the provider and the recipient of care: the doctor and his patient. This book deals essentially with how to deliver care to the satisfaction of the patient and his doctor in terms of best outcome or effect, reasonable cost, and overall enhancement of health. Drs. Lister and Sagin show that when the characteristics of such ideal care are achieved in the basic unit of care, which is the doctor-patient relationship, all the other people and institutions involved in health care – the patients’ families, the hospitals and their staff members, the employers, the insurers and other entities – benefit. In this book, they lay out their plan to bring about lasting positive change in the United States health care system by improving one critical aspect of health care: the hospital-doctor working relationship. They look at the different types of employment arrangements and compensation that have existed over the past, how they have changed, and what exist today. They spell out the advantages and disadvantages of each type. Then they point out what...
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